“Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today, mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: Black people, especially black men, are criminals. This is what it means to be black” (Alexander 197). Today, our nation represents an interracial racial caste system – a caste system that includes whites under its control in order to remain a colorblind system. Mass incarceration is no different than slavery or Jim Crow, it is simply a new racial caste system in the age of colorblindness (Alexander