Our Prisons, Ourselves: Race, Gender and the Rule of Law

Prison rape is a canard of popular culture. Comedians from Jay Leno to street-corner wiseguys recycle the tired joke: Don't drop the soap, or some big, scary criminal will make you his bitch. This jocular fear is often racialized: A running joke throughout movies concerns the theme in which a v...

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Main Author: Buchanan, Kim Shayo (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: 2015
In:Year: 2015
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Summary:Prison rape is a canard of popular culture. Comedians from Jay Leno to street-corner wiseguys recycle the tired joke: Don't drop the soap, or some big, scary criminal will make you his bitch. This jocular fear is often racialized: A running joke throughout movies concerns the theme in which a very large Black male prisoner threatens a boy... [who may be] raped or 'punked' by a Mike Tyson-esque character. These jokes reveal one of men's starkest fears about prison: that they will be unmanned or made gay by being sexually assaulted by a big black man