The New Jim Crow (52 page)

The Strange Career of Jim Crow
(Woodward)

Stratford High School (Goose Creek, South Carolina)

structural racism

Stutman, Robert

Supreme Court rulings: crack cases and discriminatory sentencing; and “drug-courier profiles,”; drug-law enforcement and claims of racial bias; and end of Jim Crow system; Fourth Amendment
decisions; jury selection; and majoritarian political process; and mandatory sentencing laws; police searches and seizures; police traffic stops; police use of lethal chokeholds; and post-arrest legal representation; and prosecutorial discretion in drug-law enforcement; and public housing; race as factor in police decision making; and racial profiling; and racially discriminatory sentencing.
See also names of individual cases

Swank, Eric

SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) teams

Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)

Thinking About Crime
(Tonry)

Thirteenth Amendment

Thomas, James

“three strikes” laws

Time
magazine

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (1964)

Tonry, Michael

Torres, Gerald

traffic stops; and broad discretion for police; consent searches; drug forfeiture laws and seizures; and “drug-courier profiles,”; and Fourth Amendment; and police training programs; pretext stops

Travis, Jeremy

Tulia drug sting operation (1999)

unemployment

United Nations Human Rights Committee

Urban League report “The State of Black America” (1990)

U.S. Sentencing Commission

Vera Institute

voting rights: disenfranchisement of ex-felons; and Fifteenth Amendment; Jim Crow era disenfranchisement; Reconstruction Era; restoration processes for ex-felons

Voting Rights Act (1965)

Wacquant, Loïc

Walker, Herman

Wallace, George

War on Drugs; George H.W. Bush administration; Clinton administration; conspiracy theories; and crack cocaine; early resistance within law enforcement; federal agencies' antidrug funding; financial incentives to law enforcement; and genocide; and inner-city economic collapse; internalization of; media campaigns; myths of; Reagan administration.
See also
War on Drugs and the criminal justice system

War on Drugs and the criminal justice system; arguments that race has always influenced the criminal justice system; and court system; and drug forfeiture laws; “drug-courier profiles,”; financial incentives; and Fourth Amendment; guilty pleas/ plea bargaining; legal services /legal representation; mandatory minimum sentencing; paramilitary raids and police SWAT teams; pretext stops; and racial discrimination; traffic stops.
See also
mass incarceration system; police/police departments and drug-law enforcement; post-prison release (ex-offenders)

War on Poverty

Washington, Booker T.

Watson, Tom

We Won't Go Back
(Matsuda and Lawrence)

Weaver, Vesla

Weaver, Warren

Weinstein, Jack

“welfare queens,”

welfare reform legislation

Western, Bruce

Western Area Narcotics Task Force (WANT)

When Work Disappears
(Wilson)

“Where Have the Black Men Gone?”
(2006
Ebony
article)

White Citizens' Councils

“white crime,”

White House Office of National Drug Control

whites: and colorblindness; drug arrests/imprisonment; and drug-law enforcement; and drunk driving awareness campaigns; end of Jim Crow and Southern whites' backlash; ex-offenders; illegal drug use; poor and working-class; and racial privilege; and racial profiling in police traffic stops; shift in racial attitudes/support for antidiscrimination principles; victims of racial caste system; “white crime,”; youth drug crimes/ illegal drug use

Whren, Michael

Why We Can't Wait: Reversing the Retreat on Civil Rights (October 2007 conference)

Wideman, John Edgar

Williams, John Bell

Wilson, William Julius

Winant, Howard

Winfrey, Oprah

Wolff, Paula

Womack, Willa

women, African American: conflicted views about crime; and gender gap; and service-sector employment

Woodward, C. Vann

World War II

Young, Iris Marion

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