Essay 3 Original Outline + Ideas

Essential Outline:
-Use a story similar to the Jarvious Cotton story, but a Latino/Hispanic equivalent
-Use historical Context of the fact that it took Hispanics and other races just as long as to be able to vote in America. And incarceration has the same effect on them.

History:
-Although not as old, it still is rooted in American history
-1848 – Winning of Mexican-American War. Those still living in now American land gained “citizenship” and the country gained a considerable Mexican American population.
-Also had mob violence and lynching
-Stealing jobs accusations (Great Depression), same sentiment even now (Now theyre stealing “Black Jobs”). Led to forced Deporations 20’s-30’s
-Segreated as well even though the laws didnt explicitly say Latios
– In 1945, along with four other families, they filed a class action lawsuit against four Orange County school districts. Their goal: Ensure that all children could attend California schools regardless of race.

• Argued, Mexican American students didn’t speak English and were thus not entitled to attend English-speaking schools. Added they never gave students proficiency tests. “Mexicans are inferior in personal hygiene, ability and in their economic outlook,” said one official.
  -Langauge barrier/discrimination
  -On February 18, 1946 ended segragations for mexican americans in the era, caused chain reaction (May 17, 1954 was B.V.BE, though on a larger scale)

-The argument of “who has it worse.”
-Something about them being glossed over, just as black people were.
-Voting Rights?
-How the War on Drugs affected Latino Communities as well
-Image Tainting

-If Mass Incarceration is the New Jim Crow for Black people, then Deportation, Naturalization, and Mass Incarceration are the New Jim Crow for Hispanic people

-If we wanna solve problems we need to talk about the mass problem, we wish to be equal and colorblind, but even when we talk about color how come some colors are missing?
-Alexander keeps using poc/people of color, brown, and Latinos in statistics and writing. Then why mention them if only to skip over them.

Page Examples/Notes:
Page 6 Alexander
A few years after the drug war was declared, crack began to spread rapidly in the porr black neighborhoods of Los Angeles and later emerged in cities across the country.
The media campaign was an extraordinary success. Almost overnight, the media was saturated with images of black “crack whores,” “crack dealers,” and “crack babies” – images that seemed to confirm the woeest negative steristypes about impoverished inner-city residents.

Page 254 Alexander
Very well that Latinos, Asian Americans, and Whites also commit drug crimes. We, as a nation, seem comfotable with 90 percent of the people arrested and convieted of drug offenses in some states being African American, bit if the figure were 100 percent, the veil of color blindness would be lost.

The fact that quality data on Hispanics in the prison systems is often lacking may be partly to blame for this omission.159 But it is important to remember that during the Jim Crow years, Hispanics in many jurisdictions were subject to forms of exclusion, segregation, and disenfranchisement not unlike those inflicted on African Americans.160 And given what we do know about current Hispanic incarceration rates, it is clear that Hispanic prisoners deserve the attention of all who write about the prison system. The Hispanic prison population climbed steadily during the 1990s, to the point where one in six Hispanic males born today can expect to go to prison in their lifetime. 161 The available data suggest that Hispanic incarceration rates are almost double the rates for whites, and many observers believe that these data undercount the true rate at which Hispanics go to prison.162 Most Hispanic prisoners, like most blacks and whites, are serving time for violent offenses, and about 20% are in prison for drug offenses.163
Thus, the data on white and Hispanic prisoners reminds us that while African Americans are incarcerated in numbers grossly disproportionate to their percentage of the overall population, the fact remains that 60% of prisoners are not African American. As I will argue in the conclusion, anyone analyzing mass incarceration must keep that 60% squarely in mind.
Pg 60 Forman

-Look at the Hispanic struggle during Jim Crow and the similar labeling done to them as Black people. Look at the voting history, even now. Deportation would be their “Jim Crow.”