"Convict Race": Racialization in the Era of Hyperincarceration
Prison is the most powerful engine of racialization in the United States today. While radical imprisoned intellectuals have compelled large activist-scholar audiences, the ones who are not radicalized by their prison experiences are just as important to understand. This essay explores racial identif...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2012
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Social justice
Año: 2012, Volumen: 39, Número: 4, Páginas: 31-51 |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
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| Sumario: | Prison is the most powerful engine of racialization in the United States today. While radical imprisoned intellectuals have compelled large activist-scholar audiences, the ones who are not radicalized by their prison experiences are just as important to understand. This essay explores racial identification among people incarcerated at a medium-security facility in Indiana where the author teaches, noting both reactionary anti-racialism and expressions of commonality with African American history and struggle. The author brings together Foucault, Gramsci, Stuart Hall, theorists of anti-blackness, and abolitionist scholar-activists to analyze this complex white supremacist anti-racialism. |
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