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 13^th 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.