The New Jim Crow: “Rebirth of Caste” - 5 Quotes

1. "Under slavery, the racial order was most effectively maintained by a large degree of contact between slave owners and slaves, thus maximizing opportunities for supervision and discipline, and minimizing the potential for active resistance or rebellion. Strict separation of the races would have threatened slaveholders' immediate interests and was, in any event, wholly unnecessary as a means of creating social distance or establishing the inferior status of slaves". 


2. "Convicts had no meaningful legal rights at this time and no effective redress. They were understood, quite literally, to be slaves of the state."
This quote is a great extension of  what we talked about in class. Black men and women, despite being "freed", were still slaves but now under a new name. 




3. "Conservatives blamed liberals for pushing blacks ahead of their proper station in life and placing blacks in positions they were unprepared to fill, a circumstance that had allegedly contributed to their downfall."




4. "Some segregationists went further, insisting that integration causes crime, citing lower crime rates in Southern states as evidence that segregation was necessary."


5. "...a disproportionate share of the costs of integration and racial equality had been borne by lower- and lower-middle-class whites, who were suddenly forced to compete on equal terms with blacks for jobs and status and who lived in neighborhoods adjoining black ghettos."