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I can’t speak to why or how this is in “13th” and it could have been a simple mistake, but correcting it might have been difficult within the movie’s narrative. History is not just stuff that happens by accident. 0000142964 00000 n Yet here we are all together, the products of that set of choices. Write the answers on your blog. Change ). FILM THEMES Whose life do we recognize as being valuable? A large portion of the movie is basically an engaging walk through a very standard narrative of mass incarceration. Spencer Averick. The year’s not over yet! If you’ve read a bit about the subject, then you can probably recite the chapters of that narrative yourself: Jim Crow, the Civil Rights movement, backlash, Richard Nixon, the War On Drugs, Ronald Reagan, the crack/cocaine sentencing disparity, Bill Clinton, the Crime Bill, “three strikes and you’re out”, etc. 2018-04-25T00:20:39-07:00 An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality. But this isn’t just a nitpick about a small difference.
• Were you surprised to know about ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council—a committee of politicians and corporations influencing laws that benefit its corporate founders and pushing forth policies to increase the number of people in prison and increase sentences)? Googling suggests that it’s been cited as a statistic for 2008 as long ago as 2011 (sometimes in articles discussing “The New Jim Crow” author Michelle Alexander, who is heavily featured in “13th”, but I’m not sure she’s ever said it herself). (Update: I should note that UCR “arrests” include summons and citations. 0000024426 00000 n
Find out which documents We, The People, chose in a recent vote as the most influential in U.S. History. The Huge World Of Arrests: Why The War On Drugs Matters In Mass Incarceration, Part 4. It’s trying to argue that incarceration is part of a never-ending system of racial and social control. Perhaps they make it a stronger piece of advocacy, but I think they make it a weaker piece of art. Director Ava DuVernay’s takes an unflinching, well-informed and thoroughly researched look at the American system of incarceration, specifically how the prison industrial complex affects people of color. but 25% of the
This documentary emphasizes that the current crisis of mass incarceration is directly tied to our country’s legacy and history of slavery. [1]. The historical roots of this oppression run deep, as Ava DuVernay’s documentary 13TH reveals. %PDF-1.7 %���� endobj 0000018383 00000 n Stories and reflections from staff and students of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. endobj Again, I’m not sure what explains this odd graph.
This is a very strange mistake; the turn from ever-increasing prisons has been widely discussed. Here’s the one on Wikipedia, for example: It looks like the usual graph, but…what the hell is that last dot? endobj Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. MARTIN: It's such a big subject and so many people have written about it, really, through the centuries from all perspectives. The title refers to the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution, which outlaws slavery, “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted”. That’s disproportionate to population in every case, but to say the very least, there was never a Southern state where a majority of the slaves were White, or where a majority of those facing Jim Crow laws were White. (At least that’s in the discussion around the movie; that argument isn’t made directly in the movie itself.) Author Kevin Schlenker is a Masters student of Transnational Crime, Justice & Security at the University of Glasgow. 0000003746 00000 n The film argues that there is a direct link between American slavery and the modern American prison system. Criminal. I’m not sure a single white person is explicitly acknowledged to be in the criminal justice system (I think the main allusion is towards the end: Michelle Alexander says mass incarceration “is gobbling up people in communities of all colors” but this is only possible because “it began with a group of people defined by race”[2]). Ava DuVernay’s galvanising documentary 13th injects a brilliantly narrated, blood-boiling perspective of historical synthesis explaining mass incarceration in the United States. Instead, whatever the intent, they seem glossed over. The title refers to the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution, which outlaws slavery, “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted”. 0000009228 00000 n This helper PDF makes it easy to load entries into a drop list on the PDF form you are building by simply copying and pasting the text from an Excel file, or any text source. In fact larger numbers have probably been true at some point: African-Americans were around 45% of the prison/jail population in 2000. <>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/Type/Page>> %PDF-1.4 %���� “13th”, Ava DuVernay’s new documentary on the history of race and incarceration in the United States, could become a big part of that debate. Education, school leadership, lesson plans, technology, 21st century skills, The United States is home to 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s prisoners.
endobj The experience of African-Americans under mass incarceration is certainly a valid subject for a documentary, but “13th” keeps talking about the whole prison population. I have some issues with it, but it’s an iconic and effective examples of political data visualization. 0000000916 00000 n 1. 0000003466 00000 n You know the one: A chart showing how prison populations were pretty steady for decades and then had huge growth in the 1970s or 1980s. I also added some clarification on “arrests” on 10/14/2016 at 5:02 pm. endobj ( Log Out /
16 0 obj Ava DuVernay’s Netflix film ’13th’ reveals how mass incarceration is an extension of slavery. Is Wikipedia’s wrong? These UCR estimates have almost 2.5 million fewer arrests for 2012 than for 1994. And frankly that graph is a generous one to use. This is an interesting idea, but the period immediately after the end of slavery is rushed through in about five minutes. It might just be a visual typo, but I think that the effect is considerably misleading, and that an accurate graph might sit uneasily with quotes like Davis’. DuVernay’s “13th” obviously isn’t trying to be a neutral depiction of the criminal justice system — as if that were even possible — but to make a case against it, and perhaps for the abolition of prison itself. Double-counting issues aside, I can’t find a source for the “Black men are 40.2% of the prison population” figure. Ratified December 6, 1865. Section 1. Here’s arrests per capita: Far from “notching up” in the aftermath of the crime bill, the arrest rate has been falling and is now much lower than it was in 1980, before much of “mass incarceration”. Prince 9.0 rev 5 (www.princexml.com) Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. <> Assuming these UCR estimates aren’t totally off, that means there have been millions and millions fewer arrests every year than if the rate had stayed where it was before the Crime Bill. Section 2. DuVernay, who also directed the Oscar-winning Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma (2014), manages to present a long history and orchestrate the rising voices heard in interviews into a powerful and electrifying concert in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and the 2016 election. [1] I’m not sure exactly how “13th” is defining “prison population”; an onscreen graphic shows the 2000 prison population as 2,015,300, which is what you get from adding the state and federal prison and local jail populations in the first table without factoring in double-counting. uuid:63118658-a87c-11b2-0a00-782dad000000 uuid:631197f8-a87c-11b2-0a00-60a663d6ff7f
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( Log Out / 12 0 obj [3] Full disclosure: I have not read “The New Jim Crow”, but I have read James Forman Jr.’s rebuttal “Racial Critiques Of Mass Incarceration: Beyond The New Jim Crow”, which I think makes some similar points as I make here, especially in my last few paragraphs. Special note regarding document transcripts. Note: I changed the title from “Ava DuVernay’s “13th” And Documentary As Advocacy: Some Factual Issues.” on 10/12/2016 at 2:42 pm. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. 0000001769 00000 n Viewers grasp the larger, more potent implications of her argument as she recounts recent police killings of black people, showing that racism and criminalisation is systematic, highly profitable, and deeply entrenched in the nucleus of American political discourse, and indeed, in the US Constitution itself. 0000001794 00000 n By showing how slavery shifted to convict leasing, to Jim Crow segregation, to the war on drugs, 13th argues that “systems of oppression are durable and they often reinvent themselves.” As Angela
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Again, none of those things exactly contradicts the theme of “13th”, but admitting them might have required a more nuanced and complicated film. “Racial Critiques Of Mass Incarceration: Beyond The New Jim Crow”.
(The Hispanic male state/federal incarceration rate actually dropped from 1220 to 1091 while the Hispanic female state/federal incarceration rate rose slightly from 60 to 64, but Hispanics generally seem to have risen as a share of the incarcerated — Whites may not have — and there was more absolute growth in Hispanic state/federal prisoners than in White state/federal prisoners.)