DuVernay traces Ronald Reagan’s “war on drugs,” his economic policies, and his efforts at voter suppression to the same objective. When Jim Crow laws yielded to the civil-rights movement, in the nineteen-sixties, Richard Nixon’s “Southern strategy” and “law and order” campaign-which endure to this day-aimed to keep black citizens subjugated and out of power. Ava DuVernay’s analytical and passionate documentary traces the current-day mass incarceration of black Americans to its historical origins in the Thirteenth Amendment, which banned slavery and involuntary servitude “except as punishment for a crime.” That exception, as she demonstrates, quickly led to the systematic criminalization of black people.
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