CRI340H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Civil Death, Essentialism, Color Blindness
11 Apr 2018
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Racism as state sanctioned and outside of the law and exploitation of group differentiated vulnerability to premature death. This says that law is making your life shorter based upon who you are, death does not always mean biological death, civil death (ability to participate in society), social death, cultural death: michelle brown . She is saying that there is an underpinning to us, discretionary decision making makes up criminal justice system and leads to the death that wilson discusses. The erasure of the psychic affective of living within and against the toll of incarceration. Think about how supposedly progressive discourses, liberal discourses actually can work to promote carceral knowledge. Ideas that should be beautiful within our system continue to promote ideas of incarceration. Totalizing force of law (something you cannot get away from) Black lives as being ungreviable not worth the emotion or the thought of care, desensitization of black bodies.
