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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTA-NEHISI COATES: The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
The Black Family in the Age of Mass IncarcerationPoliticians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history. Reconsidering Daniel Patrick Moynihans report on The Negro Family, 50 years later.
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The United States now accounts for less than 5 percent of the worlds inhabitantsand about 25 percent of its incarcerated inhabitants.
TA-NEHISI COATES OCTOBER 2015 ISSUE
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From the mid-1970s to the mid-80s, Americas incarceration rate doubled, from about 150 people per 100,000 to about 300 per 100,000. From the mid-80s to the mid-90s, it doubled again. By 2007, it had reached a historic high of 767 people per 100,000, before registering a modest decline to 707 people per 100,000 in 2012. In absolute terms, Americas prison and jail population from 1970 until today has increased sevenfold, from some 300,000 people to 2.2 million. The United States now accounts for less than 5 percent of the worlds inhabitantsand about 25 percent of its incarcerated inhabitants. In 2000, one in 10 black males between the ages of 20 and 40 was incarcerated10 times the rate of their white peers. In 2010, a third of all black male high-school dropouts between the ages of 20 and 39 were imprisoned, compared with only 13 percent of their white peers.
NEW COATES OPUS:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/the-black-family-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration/403246/
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TA-NEHISI COATES: The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Original Post)
kpete
Sep 2015
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Skittles
(153,193 posts)1. meanwhile
the people who started senseless wars and crashed the economy have never been held accountable
seriously fucked up
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)2. Ta-nehesi Coates' NPR interview this afternoon was brilliant
This guy really has his finger on the issues that matter.
BIG K&R!!
davekriss
(4,627 posts)3. Between the World and Me
Listened to most of an audio version of this on a recent road trip. Incredible, very enlightening. I highly recommend!
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)4. Anyone ever read "The Better Angels of Our Nature" by Steve Pinker?
The upshot is from neolithic to current mankind, we have become less violent. There is believed to be a nonviolent genetic and social pressure in settled and civilized places, and the longer folks are under such selection pressure, the more docile folks gets.