ETH STD 21AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Reconstruction Era, Convict Lease, Misdemeanor

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Ethnic Studies
• Course: ETH STD 21AC
• Professor: V E Robinson, V E

Document Summary

Mlk: we will wear you down with our capacity to suffer . Necropolitics/ necropower contribute to the destruction of people. Splendid failure : black/ radical reconstruction by dubois. Dubois insists slaves ended slavery itself influential britannica rejected dubois" work. Blacks portrayed as chaotic, incapable of political self thought and self determination. Whites showed as civilized, women as pure. 13th amendment: outlawed slavery except in cases of. Judicial capture: black codes/ convict lease system crime. Everything can be read as crime when read on black persons. 1) pig law: theft over led to a felony punishment of 5 years, when previously the punishment was a misdemeanor. 2) mandatory minimums: remove any and all context. 3) vagrancy statute: if a laborer or servant is loitering (moving/ walking without permission), sent to jail. Move from private ownership to public ownership (subcontracted. Private companies ensured housing and food for prisoners, paid the government for the prisoners" labor (source of state revenue)