advocacy, future of; changing the culture of law enforcement; collective denial by civil rights advocates; dismantling the mass incarceration system; and flawed public consensus; grassroots activism by formerly incarcerated men and women; human rights paradigm/ approach; Obama presidency; poor and working-class whites; and problem of colorblind advocacy; reconsidering affirmative action; reform work and movement building; reluctance to advocate on behalf of criminals; and sentencing; and trickle-down theories of racial justice
Civil Rights Movement; backlash against; and black people who defied racial stereotypes; desegregation protests; and economic justice; and end of Jim Crow system; and federal legislation; and human rights approach; initial resistance from some African Americans; and Kingâs call for complete restructuring of society; Poor Peopleâs Movement
civil rights organizations/community; collective denial by; professionalization and conversion of grassroots movement into legal crusade; reluctance to advocate on behalf of criminals. See also civil rights advocacy, future of
Clary, Edward
Clinton, Bill/Clinton administration; federal drug programs; marijuana use; militarization of War on Drugs; public housing and eviction rules; âtough on crimeâ policies/legislation; and War on Drugs; welfare reform legislation
Cloward, Richard
cognitive bias research
Cohen, Cathy
Cohen, Stanley
Cohen, William
Cole, David
Coley, Rebekah Levine
colorblindness; and affirmative action; and black exceptionalism; and âinterracial racial caste system,â; and mass incarceration; problem of flawed pursuit of; Reaganâs racialized campaign rhetoric; resisting temptation to ignore race in advocacy; and U.S. Constitution; and whitesâ reluctance to acknowledge race
Colvin, Claudette
Common (rap artist)
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program
Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevent and Control Act (1970)
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)
consent searches and traffic stops
conservative philosophy of race relations (Reconstruction era)
conspiracy theories and War on Drugs
Constitution, U.S.. See also individual amendments
Corrections Corporation of America
Cosby, Bill
Cotton, Jarvious
crack cocaine; conspiracy theories; and drunk driving campaigns; hundred-to-one ratio; media campaign; and outdoor drug activity/open-air drug markets; and prosecutorsâ extraordinary discretion; and racially discriminatory sentencing; and Reaganâs drug war
crime and âget toughâ policies; black support for; and Clinton administration; and mass incarceration system; and white voters
crime rates; crime reduction and incarceration rates; drug crime; and joblessness; violent crime
âcriminalblackman,â
Criminology (journal)
Davis, Angela J.
death penalty: Baldus study findings; and drug-related offenses; and legal advocacy; and Obama; racial bias in sentencing
Declaration of Independence
deindustrialization
Democratic Party
denial, collective; âbirdcageâ metaphor and structural racism; by civil rights advocates; and mass incarceration of black men
Denton, Nancy
Diallo, Amadou
disenfranchisement. See voting rights
dogs, drug-sniffing
Doing Time on the Outside (Braman)
Douglas, Justice William O.
Douglass, Frederick
Drake, Clinton
Dred Scott v. Sanford
driverâs licenses
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); antidrug spending; cash grants/federal aid to law enforcement; âdrug-courier profiles,â; Operation Pipeline
drug forfeiture laws; creation of an âinnocent owner,â; and police shakedowns and seizures; and Reform Act (2000)
Drug Reform Act (1986)
drug treatment, mandated
drug use, arrests, and conviction rates: cities and demographic differences; prison admissions for drug offenses; and rates of illegal drug use; and whites; and youths
âdrug-courier profiles,â
drug-law enforcement and racial discrimination;