The book “New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of colorblindness”, has two

readings that focuses on the concepts of mass incarceration and the New Jim Crow for Students.

According to Alexander, description of incarceration in the first reading is that Criminal Justice

System is like a structure that consigns a number people of color. Alexander explains on how

mass incarceration has become a norm in the U.S and so, the Americans together with the entire

justice system have barred African American citizens from exercising their basic civil liberties

primarily because they are black. Simply put, the blacks are more likely to be prisoned than the

white. Secondly, the reading also describes the various ways in which systematic incarceration is

practiced in the sense of managing the poor. For a long time, black Americans have been

categorized under the second-class status even after the birth and death of Jim Crow. Therefore,

being lower class, the probability of being jailed for a long time is higher than those in middle or

upper class.

Ideally, Racial caste has not yet ended in the U.S but has rather been redesigned. Despite

the fact that the African Americans have made great contributions to the American history and

culture, their rights are still limited. They have been for long deprived of access to a reasonable

share of the United States’ economic, social, and political development. Therefore, the U.S civil

rights community should put mass internment at the front to campaign for racial justice in the

U.S.