Langston Earl Martin
April 1, 2017
AFAM 2100: The New Jim Crow
Annotated
Bibliography
· Blackmon, Douglas A. “Slavery by
Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World
War II”. New York: Anchor Publishers, 2008
-This book covers the ways in which the African American citizen was
brought into a new kind of slavery despite the passing of the 13th
Amendment. It shows the how they used the prison system as a way to incarcerate
black people in mass, and then use them for free labor. Since apparently
becoming a felon nullifies your US Citizenship.
· Alexander, Michelle. “The New Jim
Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”. New York: The New
Press, 2010
-This book shows how the law was continuously used against the African
American community. Causing a mass incarceration of Black Youths, as well as
the implementation of Laws specifically used to lessen the Black impact on the
world.
· Schulman, Marc. “Economics and the
Civil War. http://www.historycentral.com/CivilWar/AMERICA/Economics.html
-This article covers the importance of Slavery in the south and how it
forged they’re economy. For a while the south had more power over the country
than the north, this explains one of the many reasons the Civil War was
started.
