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Find two examples where Alexander introduces the views of others.

Alexander introduces the views of other by including examples of African Americans who were refused the right to vote, or in turn, were faced with barriers to voting such as “poll taxes” or “literacy tests."

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2. Explain the closed door metaphor.

Alexander often says things like, "It closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias in sentencing" (111). The metaphor of closed doors is apt because while doors may literally be closed in terms of suits not able to proceed, the image of a...

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What central research question does Alexander ask that politicians and scholars have not been able to answer

The main theme of Alexander's work is that the current American system of mass incarceration, created in response to the rise in drug arrests, is a systematic attempt to marginalize people of color much in the same way that the Jim Crow laws...

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