1. Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness
... financed activities. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, an arguably more significant achievement, rendered illegal numerous discriminatory barriers to effective political participation by African-Americans and mandated federal review of all new voting regulations so that it would be possible to determine whether their use would perpetuate voting discrimination. In the next five years, the percentage of African ... "welfare queen", became a code for "lazy, greedy, black ghetto mother." The food stamp program, in turn, was a vehicle to let "some fellow ahead of you buy a T-bone steak" while "y...
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