CN: racism

In this episode I explain based on the book „The New Jim Crow“ by Michelle Alexander why the US justice system is based on slavery and how slavery has an impact today in the incarceration system.

Timestamps:

00:00 - 12:30: The history of slavery and colonialism

12:30 - 20:30: The Jim Crow laws as a continuation of slavery

20:30 - 34:17: The New Jim Crow and the current justice system

references:

Chase, R. T. (2012) '“Slaves of the State” Revolt: Southern Prison Labor and a Prison-Made Civil Rights Movement, 1945–1980', in R. H. Zieger (ed.) Life and Labor in the New New South. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, pp. 177–213. DOI: 10.5744/florida/9780813037950.003.0007 (online edn, Florida Scholarship Online). Accessed 9 Oct. 2025. OUP Academic+1

Clarke, D. and Everet, S. (1998) The History of American Slavery. North Dighton, MA: World Publications, Incorporated. Google Bücher

Tischauser, L. V. (2012) Jim Crow Laws (Landmarks of the American Mosaic). Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. Amazon

Hillebrink, S. (2008) The Right to Self-Determination and Post-Colonial Governance: The Case of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press. WorldCat

Klinkers, I. and Oostindie, G. (2003) Decolonising the Caribbean: Dutch Policies in a Comparative Perspective. London: Routledge. Routledge

Alexander, M. (2016) The New Jim Crow. Masseninhaftierung und Rassismus in den USA. Übers. Gabriele Gockel & Thomas Wollermann. München: Verlag Antje Kunstmann.