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Reflection on Annette Bickford’s Guest Lecture
I found Annette Bickford’s guest lecture extremely interesting, especially her discussion of liberal humanism and how it protects institutions using the example of the multicultural classroom. Specifically, she describes how the multicultural classroom is a site that makes racism worse, as the brief cultural celebrations give an allusion that everything is okay, but in reality […]
Analyzing the “Australian Mission”
by Nia Williams Image: “Australian Mission” Film is a vital primary resource because it has the ability to capture power, which is central to the study of incarceration. Power, being the structure that propels colonization and racial capitalism, is essential to understanding 20th century Australia’s forced separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families by […]
Penal Sentencing and the Latino Juvenile Offender
by Taylor Huie Source: “Latinos in the Juvenile Justice: Youth Crime, but Adult Time”[1] Written by Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute fellow Angela Medina in 2001, the article shown above was published by El Editor, a weekly bilingual English and Spanish newspaper based in Midland-Odessa, Texas.[2] This article details the effect of “tough-on-crime” legislation on rulings […]
Convict Leasing and Racial Capitalism
by Genoveva Ntirugelegwa Juvenile convicts at work in the fields[1] While we have dissected prison in many different time periods and forms throughout this course, convict leasing is a part of prison history that I have become increasingly interested in. Convict leasing developed throughout the South immediately after the Civil War. In Sarah Haley’s […]
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