CRM 4302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Theft, Bourgeoisie, Institutional Racism
19 Mar 2019
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In four decades the ethnic composition of the us prison population has reversed: 1950: 70% white; 2000: 70% 1865 1965: slavery (1619-1865, segregation / ghetto (north. Slavery (1619-1865: forcible importation of africans and west indians supplied the unfree and fixed workforce", use of violence to fulfill economic ends, slavery transformed economic relations, few groups of white who owned land owned slaves. Jim crow (south, 1865 1965: a regime of racial segregation, blacks codes: vagrancy was coded as black crime. 1914 1968: the great migration, crisis of cotton agriculture and the mechanization, demand for labour in the steel mills, railroads and factories, to escape the brutal conditions of the jim crow", ethnoracial discrimination and segregation. In housing, schooling, workforce: to establish a clear division along the colour line". Imprisonment of black: to sustain caste divisions in society. From communal ghetto to hyperghetto: how the ghetto became more like a prison, class segregation overlays racial segregation.
