HIST 12A Lecture 10: Lec 10
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Were built deliberate partial resolutions to the problems presented by the 4 surpluses. It should be understood as a set of practices, institutions, articulations, that change over time and circumstance. Its effects can be constrained or enlivened in different historical moments. How racism is articulated and how it sets itself within these institutions. Gilmore wants us to understand that it"s not in 1982 that suddenly the us goes from being anti-racist to a racist society. She wants us to note the effects of the policies are with racist practices. The political choice to police certain areas (black and latino communities). In theory: when imprisoned people were corrected parole boards would allow them to rejoin society. In practice, parole boards were capricious, racist, represented local elites. Changes classification for certain offenses (residential burglary and domestic assault) to felonies that required prison terms (1983) Board of prison terms instructs parole officers to revoke parole with greater frequency.
