CAS WS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Revanchism, African Americans, Free Trade
18 Dec 2017
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Us is a neoliberal state: private companies, private individuals, and free markets are in charge of economic growth and social welfare. The market rules: laissez-faire deregulation, trade liberalization, less taxes. The welfare state shrinks: privatization of public goods, More than 80% of custodial parents are mothers. Coded as black people: jobless single mothers on welfare and criminal inner-city men. Welfare reform/workfare = obligation to accept insecure employment as a condition of support. A supervisory work placement program aimed at the poor. Mandatory work programs that replaced traditional style welfare assistance after 1996. Us has less than 5% of the world"s population and 25% of the world"s prisoners. Rising rates of incarceration and the expansion of the penal state, argue loic wacquant are best described as hyper incarceration (not mass-incarceration) and finely target distinct populations by class and race. African american men are 8x more likely to be put behind bars than european american men.
