Assignment task: Professor Michelle Alexander has argued that mass incarceration took the place of segregation as the mechanism through which whites continued to subordinate blacks. This explains why the rise of mass incarceration roughly coincided with the demise of legal segregation. But the emergence of mass incarceration also roughly coincided with the decisive turn to subjective criminality in America. More specifically, the beginning of the upward tick in prison rates that is attributed to mass incarceration broadly overlaps with the period shortly following the publication of the Model Penal Code.
Michelle Alexander argues that we have not done away with Jim Crow laws; rather, we have merely "redesigned" them. How do you about professor Alexander arguments? Please explain.