She contends they disenfranchised most black people across the South at the turn of the 20th century, excluding them from the political system (including juries), at the same time that lynching of black people by white mobs reached a peak. Southern states criminalized minor offenses, arresting freedmen and forcing them to work when they could not pay fines institutionalizing this approach as convict leasing (which created an incentive to criminalize more behavior). DuVernay contends as "systems of racial control" and forced labor from the years after the abolition of slavery to the present. It explores the economic history of slavery and post- Civil War racist legislation and practices that replaced it. This film features several activists, academics, political figures from both major US political parties, and public figures, such as Angela Davis, Bryan Stevenson, Michelle Alexander, Jelani Cobb, Van Jones, Newt Gingrich, Cory Booker, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and others.
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The film begins with an audio clip of President Barack Obama stating that the US had 5 percent of the world's population but 25 percent of the world's prisoners. It experienced a surge in viewership by 4,665 percent in June 2020 during the George Floyd protests. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards. She examines the prison-industrial complex and the emerging detention-industrial complex, discussing how much money is being made by corporations from such incarcerations.ġ3th garnered acclaim from a number of film critics. The film explores the "intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States " it is titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1865, which abolished slavery throughout the United States and ended involuntary servitude except as a punishment for conviction of a crime.ĭuVernay contends that slavery has been perpetuated since the end of the American Civil War through criminalizing behavior and enabling police to arrest poor freedmen and force them to work for the state under convict leasing suppression of African Americans by disenfranchisement, lynchings, and Jim Crow politicians declaring a war on drugs that weighs more heavily on minority communities and, by the late 20th century, mass incarceration affecting communities of color, especially American descendants of slavery, in the United States. 13th is a 2016 American documentary film by director Ava DuVernay.