The Long Shadow of Injustice: A historical re-periodization of the narrative of mass incarceration Öffentlichkeit

Abstract

Abstract
The Long Shadow of Injustice:
A historical re-periodization of the narrative of mass incarceration
Mass incarceration is the pattern of penal confinement targeting specific racial groups resulting
in a form of racialized social control that creates an undercaste-"a lower caste of individuals
who are permanently barred by law and custom from mainstream society." This project
attempts to redefine mass incarceration as current definitions such as the aforementioned
provided by Dr. Michelle Alexander neglect eras pre dating the war on drugs and tough on
crime era of 1970s and contexts besides the United States. This project posits that the United
States utilized mass incarceration as a tool of social control of people of color prior to the
1970s. This research examines incarceration data of men in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia
between 1865-1968. This project has demonstrated a pattern of penal social control in the form
of mass incarceration prior to the war on drugs and in effect, re-periodized the narrative of
mass incarceration. Rather than construct mass incarceration as mutually exclusive from
previous institutional overt forms of social control, this project examined the nuanced nature of
mass incarceration ensuing concurrently during the reconstruction and Jim Crow eras. This
project places this research in conversation with two prominent scholars on the issue of mass
incarceration, Marc Mauer and Michelle Alexander in efforts to broaden the scope of mass
incarceration and in effect produce a more comprehensive definition of the term.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction Page 1

Chapter One: 1865-1903 Page 16

Chapter Two: 1903-1941 Page 38

Chapter Three: 1941-1968 Page 55

Conclusion Page 71

Bibliography Page 75

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School	Emory College
Department	African American Studies
Degree	BA
Submission	Honors Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Sociology, Criminology and Penology Black Studies American Studies
Stichwort	vagrancy criminal disenfranchisment freedom rides convict lease jail World War II peonage penal civil rights movement reconstruction mass incarceration black codes race
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Warren, Nagueyalti, Emory University
Committee Members	Lewis, Amanda Evelyn, Emory University Anderson, Carol , Emory University

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