WGS260H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pessimism, Uniform Civil Code, Geopolitics
14 Sep 2017
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The prison industrial complex is a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social, and political problems . Prison-justice operates within an understanding outside of other types of justice. Angela y. davis myth of the black rapist . Traces it back to justification of lynching of black men. Protect white women as property of white men. Did not protect black women or white women from white men. Ignores systemic structures that facilitate sexual violence. Work to organize which bodies matter and which ones do not. Sexual violence is woven into the fabric of the prison-industrial-complex. For women, men and juvenile prisons and immigration detention centers. Sexual violence usually occurs against trans individuals of colour. People are not placed based on their gender identity. Prevent indigenous people from leaving the reservation. You needed an actual pass to travel.
