13th- Criminalization of Race

What is meant by white supremacy

the belief that white white people constitute a superior race, justifying social order where they dominate non-whites

What about the 13th amendment encouraged white society to criminalize formerly enslaved blacks during reconstruction

13th amendment banned slavery except for in the case of criminals, so black codes were passed by southern legislatures under the pretense of arresting black people, criminalizing black people

The birth of a nation movie was an illustration of what, according to people interviewed in the documentary

it portrayed Black men as dangerous criminals and glorified the KKK, helping spread racist stereotypes that justified violent oppression

how was poverty and crime framed in the law and order rhetoric of the 50’s and 60’s

rejected structural explanations of poverty and crime, leveraging the fear of crime to resist racial progress and served as a means of social control to protect law-abiding (white) citizens from a racialized threat

how was the civil rights movement criminalized according to the 13th film

it was resisted through a political discourse that leveraged the fear of crime and “law and order” rhetoric to oppose racial progress

what was Jim Crow

the period following reconstruction that involved the exclusion of black people from all spheres of white society through segregation, disenfranchisement, and terror. It functioned as a means of protecting white supremacy

What were southern officials referring to in the 50s-60s when they called for a return to “law and order”

they were referring to a means of social control intended to protect law-abiding (white) citizens from racialized threat and to resist racial progress

How did the conservative views of poverty and crime differ from those embodied in the great society programs of the 1960’s

the great society programs offered solutions targeting inequality, poverty, urban blight, and racial segregation, in contrast, conservatives promoted the law and order solution, explicitly rejecting structural explanations of poverty and crime

What was the so called “southern strategy” and how did it contribute to the criminalization of race

the strategy focused on stoking the racial animus and fears of white voters. crime was a prominent theme in the rhetoric. it contributed to the criminalization of race by promoting the idea that the solution to the crime problem was more convictions, shifting away from addressing inequality or poverty

what does racially coded language mean and how do they relate to the criminalization of race

racially coded language refers to terms or phrases that appear nuetral but carry implicit racial meanings or biases, often used to describe racial or ethnic groups negatively. this language was the southern strategy as a means to tap into white voters’ racial fears, thereby linking crime to race and justifying the expansion of the criminal justice system