The Long Shadow of Injustice: A historical re-periodization of the narrative of mass incarceration Pubblico
Matthews, Katherine Danielle (2012)
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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