Rates of incarceration have been increasing more quickly in the United States than in any other nation. How has mass incarceration lead to what Michelle Alexander calls the new Jim Crow?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary but should include that incarceration has become a legal form of racial discrimination which aims to socially control and exclude black men from mainstream society. Social control and exclusion do not stop with the end of a prison sentence. Former prisoners are stigmatized, labeled, and called criminals even after they have served their sentences. This has led to an underclass that is legally prevented from achieving basic needs and upward social mobility. Unlike the overt racism of the last Jim Crow era, Alexander asserts that the new Jim Crow is being practiced in a so-called color-blind society that fails to recognize the institutional racism prevalent in the criminal justice system.
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A) more focused on the importance of mutual affection B) less focused on sexual attraction between partners C) less focused on communication between parents and children D) more focused on physical punishments as a way of discipline
The idea that competing centers of wealth and power within the upper class prevent it from becoming a cohesive ruling class is known as the:
a. governing class theory b. pluralist theory c. power elite theory d. theory of mass society
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watching the video, come back to the test and answer the following questions:Which of the following is true of wealth inequality in the United States? A. Income inequality tends to be greater than wealth inequality. B. The U.S. tax system is increasingly effective in reducing wealth inequality. C. The super-rich are becoming dramatically better off in terms of wealth. D. The proportion of the American population in the middle class is increasing.
In recent years, Tea Party and other right-wing activists have frequently voiced anti-immigrant sentiments and resentment toward President Obama and non-whites, generally in response to what they interpret as threats to their social and economic status. These attitudes and actions illustrate which theory of prejudice and discrimination?
a. frustration-aggression b. Marxian c. group position d. authoritarian personality