SOC323H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Life Imitating Art, Mass Incarceration, Cannibalism
14 Jan 2017
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Amendment in constitution that out laws slavery (abolition of slavery) Comes as no surprise to many that us has biggest prison pop. Used as tool to favor particular group. When we think about slavery it was an economic system. People that were property before are now free. Arrested for very minor crimes they had to provide labor to rebuild. Menacing negro male that had to be banished portrayal. Every image of black person is cannibalistic or evil. Women throw themselves off cliff rather than being raped from black. Way in which race would operate in us was constructed. It conformed story that many whites wanted to tell in aftermath. Instance of life imitating art economy after the civil war had done something criminal. Black people were brutally killed in masses by mobs under the idea that they. When it became illegal to engage in such terrorism. Not just a movie it gave popularity to kkk.
