{"id":4832,"date":"2015-10-17T22:40:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T03:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2015-10-17T22:40:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T03:40:36","slug":"adult-religious-education-18-october-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2015\/10\/17\/adult-religious-education-18-october-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Religious Education &#8212; 18 October 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness\/dp\/1595586431\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1444484161&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=The+New+Jim+Crow%3A+Mass+Incarceration+in+the+Age+of+Color-Blindness\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4807\" src=\"http:\/\/allsoulsuushreveport.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/TheNewJimCrow.jpg\" alt=\"TheNewJimCrow\" width=\"190\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/TheNewJimCrow.jpg 255w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/TheNewJimCrow-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 85vw, 190px\" \/><\/a>Our adult religious education class will meet on Sunday (18 October 2015) at 9:15 AM with a book study \/ discussion group &#8212;\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness\/dp\/1595586431\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1444484161&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=The+New+Jim+Crow%3A+Mass+Incarceration+in+the+Age+of+Color-Blindness\" target=\"_blank\">The New Jim Crow: \u00a0Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-Blindness<\/a><\/em> by Michelle Alexander.<\/p>\n<p>A brutal tangle of draconian sentencing laws, selective prosecutions, unbalanced jury selection, and a prison-for-profit system fueled by a drug war resulting in far more casualties than victories has resulted in what Michelle Alexander calls &#8221; &#8230; a stunningly comprehensive and well-disguised system of racialized social control that functions in a manner strikingly similar to [the pre-Civil Rights-era system of segregation known as] Jim Crow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This Week&#8217;s Class &#8212; &#8220;The Rebirth of Caste&#8221;<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0We\u00a0explore the history of &#8220;how we got here,&#8221; starting with the beginning of slavery, moving through Reconstruction and its backlash, into Jim Crow, the Civil Rights era and its backlash, up to the present trend of mass incarceration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allsoulsuushreveport.org\/cms\/2015\/10\/10\/adult-religious-education-resumes-11-october-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">For more information, please read this introduction to this book discussion group<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our adult religious education class will meet on Sunday (18 October 2015) at 9:15 AM with a book study \/ discussion group &#8212;\u00a0The New Jim Crow: \u00a0Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-Blindness by Michelle Alexander. A brutal tangle of draconian sentencing laws, selective prosecutions, unbalanced jury selection, and a prison-for-profit system fueled by a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2015\/10\/17\/adult-religious-education-18-october-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adult Religious Education &#8212; 18 October 2015&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-education","category-social-justice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4843,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions\/4843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}