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Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

What is the “new Jim Crow”? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.
Grade Level
9-12
Topic
Race & Ethnicity Class Rights & Activism
Subject
Social Studies
Civics
History
Social Justice Domain
Justice
October 13, 2014
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Jim Crow as a Form of Racialized Social Control

How did Jim Crow function as a mechanism of racialized social control? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.
Grade Level
9-12
Topic
Race & Ethnicity Class Rights & Activism
Subject
Social Studies
Civics
History
Social Justice Domain
Justice
October 13, 2014
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Slavery as a Form of Racialized Social Control

How did racial hierarchy adapt and persist after Emancipation? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.
Grade Level
9-12
Topic
Race & Ethnicity Class Rights & Activism
Subject
Social Studies
Civics
History
Social Justice Domain
Justice
October 13, 2014
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Vishavjit Singh

Vishavjit Singh is a cartoonist, writer, performance artist and creator of Sikhtoons.com based in New York City. He is a public speaker expounding on diversity, inclusion, storytelling and power of art in schools, universities and companies across the nation. He is also a Creative Arts and Diversity Fellow at Washington DC based Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
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