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President Barack Obama said that men, primarily African American men, needed to be better what?
The name of the hierarchy where racism is manifested through individual attitudes and stereotypes. (184)
"This is the new ______, the new racial equilibrium."
Being in the state of denial is one of the biggest ______ recurring themes in the book.
This is stage one of how the mass incarceration system works and keeps the system open for business.
A word to describe the status of a person in relation to everyone else in the United States after being released from the jail cycle.
"a lack of compassion and caring about race and racial groups" (203).
Can be described as a more extreme way of physically segregating people as opposed to the separation in the Jim Crow era.
"______ but equal" was the term that resulted from the Plessy v. Ferguson case.
Where are African American men least likely to go?
This describes a racially offensive and negative term that defines what it means to be black.
The first and main type of parallel where the book (and title) essentially derived from.
________ is a crime.
Jury ______ is the systematic exclusion of blacks from juries.
The most obvious type of discrimination paralleled between Jim Crow and mass incarceration "in which discrimination in nearly every aspect of social, political, and economic life is perfectly legal" (192).
Political _______ is where someone is deprived of partaking in political activities. African Americans were denied the right to vote through poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and felon disenfranchisement laws.
This can be defined as the treatment of a person, group, or concept as unimportant, irrelevant, or insignificant.
The outcome of the Dred Scott case said that African Americans are not _______.
"Jim Crow laws mandated residential _____."
Synonymous to the word "outcast", James Forman Jr. told the ghetto youth that they are _____ and will always remain potential subjects.

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