SOC 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Analog Science Fiction And Fact, National Urban League, 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
6 Apr 2016
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Rage against the machine: ashes in the fall. Wyclef: diallo 1999 (2009 nobel peace prize concert) Crime rate dramaically falls, more people go to jail for drug crimes, more whites use drugs though. Deining crime by race and income, labeling criminals: criminalizing young black men, labeling by media and poliicians. A third way (ater mauer, gilmore/pic): the prison as the new gheto (wacquant) Mass incarceraion what explains it: vs. sentencing, crime, war on drugs , prisons don"t make money they lose it, sucks money out of other places, lose money for funding of higher educaion. Wacquant"s deadly symbiosis in the us: new form of social control, center of united states history, argument: read the abstract (95, 2 theses: one historical, one insituional (97), his quote is below. This aricle places the prison in the historical sequence of peculiar insituions" that have shouldered the task of deining and conining african americans, alongside slavery, the jim crow regime, and the gheto.
