Blog: New Jim Crow Mini-Review & Commentary (Link)

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Editor’s note: as part of the massive site re-organization I’m doing in the new year here in 2021 I’m transferring some offsite writing and links to such, over here to ninaillingworth.com; which includes this book review and commentary blog-style post from the very end of 2018. The plan is to make it easier for the readers who’ve asked me how to read all of my articles “in one place” to actually do so; at least as long as they’re prepared to go through the back pages to when the essay was originally released, then follow a link.

Unfortunately the downside here is that existing subscribers will get notifications for content they may have already read, or may not be all that interested in. Please accept my apologies in advance folks, between Facebook going after anarchist pages and Twitter giving me the bum’s rush, I’m pretty much out of options here.

Finally, I should note that this blog-ish book review post originally appeared on December 22nd, 2018, over on my image blog at Can’t You Read.

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When I first signed up to create my image blog “Can’t You Read” on Tumblr, it was pretty much entirely because I like the way that website displays image files large enough to write memes, or in my case more like “info-graphics” on. Eventually, over time, I would ultimate shape that site into my go-to posting location for articles concerning books and quotations (including a few of my own,) but in the early stages I was trying to fuse a micro-book review, with a couple of paragraphs of relevant commentary; and that’s where today’s post comes from.

Now, in fairness and the full light of history, I do think this was an informative little discussion about both Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,“ and the cognitive trick of “knowing without knowing” that allows a covert, racialized caste system to be maintained in America for the benefit of capitalism, capitalists and capital accumulation. If I could re-wind time however, I would simply expand out both concepts for several more paragraphs to extend this from a breezy newspaper article-style book review into a serious discussion about the psychological head-cages encouraged by white supremacy. In the meantime however, this snippet of analysis was important enough for me to communicate with my readers, so I’m re-sharing it here for completeness.

To check out “New Jim Crow Mini-Review & Commentary” over on my image blog at Can’t You Read, click on the title header or the quotation block below:

New Jim Crow Mini-Review & Commentary

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