{"id":4370,"date":"2013-09-16T14:08:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T19:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=4370"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:43:17","slug":"a-fitting-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2013\/09\/16\/a-fitting-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fitting Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best known for her seminal\u00a0text <a href=\"http:\/\/newjimcrow.com\/\"><i>The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/moritzlaw.osu.edu\/faculty\/professor\/michelle-alexander\/\">Michelle Alexander<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0examined the injustices and inequality perpetuated through mass incarceration, particularly its effects on black men in the United States. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/176030\/breaking-my-silence?rel=emailNation#axzz2edrvrEQs\">her recent article in <i>The Nation<\/i><\/a>, reflecting on the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington, &#8220;breaks her silence&#8221; on interrelated topics, such as NSA spying, drone warfare, and the detention of immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>In a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., Alexander seeks to \u201cconnect the dots\u201d between\u00a0mass incarceration and broader systems of poverty, racism, militarism, and materialism.\u00a0Motivated by\u00a0King\u2019s wider critiques\u00a0of the Vietnam War abroad and labor exploitation at home, Alexander refuses to\u00a0keep a narrow view of the inequality of mass incarceration or &#8220;stay in her lane,&#8221;\u00a0as she describes it. In the spirit of the March on Washington, she links her own research with\u00a0the national and international phenomena of\u00a0the\u00a0war on terror and\u00a0the war on drugs, saying,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When we declare war on \u201cthings\u201d like terrorism and drugs, it becomes easy to forget that real people\u2014mothers, fathers and children\u2014will be targeted, caged and killed without due process, without consideration of their basic humanity, and without asking the hard questions required of complicated social and global problems that cannot be solved by a simple declaration of war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best known for her seminal\u00a0text The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander\u00a0has\u00a0examined the injustices and inequality perpetuated through mass incarceration, particularly its effects on black men in the United States. However, her recent article in The Nation, reflecting on the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington, &#8220;breaks her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1887,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,85,14],"tags":[23868,23870,16452,17757,23869,9027,14019],"class_list":["post-4370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-politics","category-race","tag-march-on-washington","tag-martin-luther-king-jr","tag-mass-incarceration","tag-michelle-alexander","tag-new-jim-crow","tag-war-on-drugs","tag-war-on-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4374,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}