{"id":429,"date":"2015-12-06T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/?p=429"},"modified":"2015-12-14T08:49:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T08:49:20","slug":"the-black-family-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/12\/06\/the-black-family-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-cover-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"article-cover-content\">\n<div class=\"article-cover-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"article-cover-content\">\n<aside class=\"pullquote instapaper_ignore\">\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/assets\/media\/img\/2015\/09\/02\/WEL_Coates_MassIncarceration_OPENER\/1920.jpg?1441919002\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>The United States now accounts for less than 5 percent of the world\u2019s inhabitants\u2014and about 25 percent of its incarcerated inhabitants.<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"dek\">American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that\u2019s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they&#8217;ve failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan\u2019s report \u201cThe Negro Family\u201d tragically helped create this system, it&#8217;s time to reclaim his original intent.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pullquote instapaper_ignore\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2015\/10\/the-black-family-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration\/403246\/\">Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States now accounts for less than 5 percent of the world\u2019s inhabitants\u2014and about 25 percent of its incarcerated inhabitants. American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that\u2019s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they&#8217;ve failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/12\/06\/the-black-family-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19,21,71,77,39,70,4,31,74],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-african-americans","tag-american-history","tag-criminal-justice","tag-discrimination","tag-law-enforcement","tag-mass-incarceration","tag-race","tag-racial-inequality","tag-stereotypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}