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Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
 
Eleventh Amendment
 
Emancipation Proclamation
 
Emanuel, Rahm
 
The Emerging Republican Majority
(Phillips)
 
employment: and ex-criminal offenders; joblessness and violent crime rates; manufacturing jobs and deindustrialization; the “negative credential” and system of state-sponsored stratification; service-sector jobs; unemployment/joblessness
 
Erlichman, John
 
Erwin, Sam, Jr.
 
 
Farrakhan, Louis
 
fathers, black
 
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), antidrug funding
 
Federalism
 
Fields, C. Virginia
 
Fifteenth Amendment
 
The Fire Next Time
(Baldwin)
 
Flavor of Love
(VH1)
 
Florida v. Bostick
 
Forman, James, Jr.
 
Fourteenth Amendment; and crack sentencing; and death penalty sentencing; and jury exclusion; and police traffic stops; and racially discriminatory law enforcement
 
Fourth Amendment
 
Freedmen’s Bureau
 
Frye, Marilyn
 
Futterman, Craig
 
 
gang databases
 
“gangsta culture,”
 
gender gap (black men and women)
 
genocide and War on Drugs
 
Gideon v. Wainwright
 
globalization
 
Goldwater, Barry
 
Goodwill Industries
 
Great Depression
 
Guinier, Lani
 
 
Haldeman, H.R.
 
Harlem riots (1964)
 
Harmelin v. Michigan
 
Harwood, Richard
 
Hill, Barbara
 
Hininger, Damon
 
Hispanics/Latinos: prison admissions for drug offenses; rates of illegal drug use
 
homelessness
 
Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
 
housing discrimination
 
human rights approach
 
Human Rights Watch
 
Hurley, Ora Lee
 
 
In re Gault
(1967)
 
incarceration.
See
mass incarceration system
 
indentured servitude
 
indifference, racial
 
inner-city economic collapse
 
Irving, Lawrence
 
 
Jackson, Jesse
 
Jefferson, Thomas
 
“Jena 6,”
 
Jim Crow system: birth of; black cooperation with; and Civil Rights Movement; death of; and Supreme Court; voting rights and disenfranchisement; and World War II, 36.
See also
mass incarceration and Jim Crow (parallels/differences)
 
Johnson, Lyndon B.
 
Johnson, Sheri Lynn
 
Johnson, Willie
 
Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education
 
juries: and felon exclusion; and peremptory strikes; and prosecutors’ discretion; and “stereotypically black” defendants; Supreme Court rulings governing jury selection
 
Justice Department, U.S.; Bureau of Statistics; report in impact of bias in criminal justice system; and street crime
 
Justice Policy Institute
 
 
Karlan, Pamela
 
Kennedy, Justice Anthony
 
Kennedy, John F.
 
Kerlikowske, Gil
 
Kilty, Keith
 
King, Martin Luther
 
King, Martin Luther, Jr.; and affirmative action; call for complete restructuring of society; and civil rights lawyers/legal cases; on colorblindness and indifference; and human rights approach; and Poor People’s Movement; and Rosa Parks
 
Klarman, Michael
 
Kraska, Peter
 
Ku Klux Klan
 
Ku Klux Klan Acts
 
 
Lambright, Nshombi
 
Law & Order
(television)
 
law enforcement.
See
drug-law enforcement and racial discrimination; police/police departments and drug-law enforcement
 
Lawrence, Charles
 
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
 
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
 
Lee, William
 
Levine, Harry
 
liberal philosophy of race relations (Reconstruction era)
 
Lincoln, Abraham
 
Lockyer v. Andrade
 
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD): databases for “gang-related” activity; and lethal chokeholds
 
Los Angeles Times
 
Loury, Glenn
 
Lyons, Adolph
 
 
Maclin, Tracey
 
Madison, James
 
Malcolm X
 
mandatory minimum sentencing; and Anti-Drug Abuse Act; and plea bargaining; reform efforts; and Supreme Court
 
March on Washington for Jobs and Economic Freedom (1963)
 
marijuana: and deaths; decriminalization of; felony possession and arrests; and mandatory sentencing guidelines; use by Clinton/Obama; and voting rights; white middle class users; white/black student users
 
Marshall, Prentiss
 
Marshall, Stanley
 
Marshall, Justice Thurgood
 
mass incarceration and Jim Crow (parallels/ differences); and argument that race has always influenced the criminal justice system; black support for “get tough” policies on crime; collective denial; differences /limits of the analogy; exclusion from juries; historical parallels; legalized discrimination; and marginalization; and overt racial hostility; parallels; political disenfranchisement; racial segregation; stereotypes about black men/ fathers; Supreme Court’s pattern of responding to racial caste/claims of racial bias; the symbolic production of race; white victims
 
mass incarceration system; and absence of black men/black fathers; arguments that race has always influenced the criminal justice system; collective denial of; and colorblindness; and crime reduction statistics; final stage (period of invisible punishment); first stage; incarceration rates; origins of; prison profiteers; private prisons; reform and dismantling of; second phase; size of; and stigma of criminality.
See also
post-prison release (ex-offenders); prisons; War on Drugs and the criminal justice system
 
Massey, Douglas
 
Matsuda, Mari
 
Mauer, Marc
 
McCaffrey, Barry
 
McClesky, Warren
 
McClesky v. Kemp
 
McCormick Institute of Public Affairs
 
McKnight, Gerald
 
McLaurin v. Oklahoma
(1950)
 
McNair, Murray
 
media coverage: crack cocaine stories; imagery of black drug users/drug criminals; and “Jena 6,”; and Obama’s campaign speech on fatherhood and personal responsibility; Reagan administration and War on Drugs
 
Miami Herald
 
Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Act (1981)
 
military policing and War on Drugs
 
Miller, Jerome
 
Miller El v. Cockrell
 
The Miner’s Canary
(Torres and Guinier)
 
minstrel shows
 
Montgomery Bus Boycott
 
moratorium campaign (closing prisons)
 
Morgan, Edmund
 
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
 
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
 
Munnerlynn, William
 
Musto, David
 
Myrdal, Gunnar
 
 
NAACP: legal challenges to Jim Crow; Web site
 
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
 
National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, 1973 recommendations
 
National Center for Institutions and Alternatives
 
National Colored Convention ( 1853)
 
National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
 
National Institute on Drug Abuse
 
National Journal
 
National Legal Aid & Defender Association
 
National Security Decision Directive (Reagan administration)
 
Neal v. Delaware
 
New Deal
 
New York Police Department (NYPD)
 
New York Times
 
Newsweek
 
Nicaragua
 
Nietzsche, Friedrich
 
Nilsen, Eva
 
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
 
Nixon, Richard
 
Nunn, Dorsey
 
 
Obama, Barack; and black exceptionalism; and Byrne grant program; campaign speech on fatherhood and personal responsibility; and crack sentencing; and death penalty; presidency and racial justice advocacy; and War on Drugs; on white guilt and history of racial discrimination
 
O’Connor, Justice Sandra Day
 
Ohio v. Robinette
 
Omi, Michael
 
“One Strike and You’re Out” legislation
 
open-air drug markets
 
Operation Pipeline
 
 
Pager, Devah
 
paramilitary drug raids
 
Parchman, Farm
 
Parks, Rosa
 
parole violations
 
“passing,”
 
Pentagon military resources and War on Drugs
 
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996)
 
PEW Charitable Trusts
 
Phillips, Kevin
 
Piven, Frances Fox
 
plea bargaining
 
Plessy v. Ferguson
 
“pluralistic ignorance,”

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