“More African American Adults are under correctional control today—in prison or jail, on probation or parol—than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.” Michelle Alexander writes this in her book, The New Jim Crow, to demonstrate the extent of mass incarceration in the United States. Mass incarceration is simply the term … Continue reading The Extent of Mass Incarceration
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Music, Fear, Culture
Ta-Nehisi Coats discussed growing up in America as a black man in his book Between the World and Me and two of the ideas he continually returned to were fear and not having control of ones body as a black man. Coats described the way that fear made its way into his daily life and manifested … Continue reading Music, Fear, Culture
A Lack of Empathy
When describing the attitudes of effective altruists in his book, The Most Good You Can Do, author Peter Singer examines empathy, and how empathy affects people within a community. Singer focuses on what empathy means and how it has become something worth focusing on in our lives today. In his book, the author uses a quote … Continue reading A Lack of Empathy