Immigration Article of the Day: From Slave Patrols to Jim Crow Laws: Examining the Nexus of Racial Profiling in America by MaCherie Placide and Duchess Harris
From Slave Patrols to Jim Crow Laws: Examining the Nexus of Racial Profiling in America by MaCherie Placide, Western Illinois University, and Duchess Harris, Macalester College October 31, 2013
Abstract: In the wake of the George Zimmerman trial, we examine the historical doctrines used to support the act of racial profiling of African Americans in the United States. Beginning with slave patrol laws of the South, black codes during Reconstruction and Jim Crow laws at the end of 19th century — we hypothesize that these historically longstanding racists policies fundamentally set a continued pattern of behaviors and attitudes toward African Americans and other groups of color. Further, we argue that these racists behaviors transcends profiling by law enforcement to regular citizens in the form “Stand Your Ground,” and “Conceal and Carry” laws.
KJ