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Published in: Human Studies 4/2007

01-12-2007 | Commentary

Scholar’s Symposium: The Work of Angela Y. Davis

The Prison Contract and Surplus Punishment: On Angela Y. Davis’s Abolitionism

Author: Eduardo Mendieta

Published in: Human Studies | Issue 4/2007

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…racism is scattered, diffused throughout the entire United States; it is shifty, sullen, arrogant, and hypocritical. There is one place where we might hope that this racism would cease, but on the contrary, this is where it becomes more cruel than anywhere else, where it is aggravated at every moment, where it does its work directly on bodies and souls, where racism becomes a kind of concentrate of racism: American prisons, and, it seems, of all American prisons, Soledad Prison, and at its center, the cell of Soledad… we could say that racism is here in its pure state, tautly alert, radiant, and ready to spring. (Genet 2004, pp. 51–52)
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Metadata
Title
Scholar’s Symposium: The Work of Angela Y. Davis
The Prison Contract and Surplus Punishment: On Angela Y. Davis’s Abolitionism
Author
Eduardo Mendieta
Publication date
01-12-2007
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Human Studies / Issue 4/2007
Print ISSN: 0163-8548
Electronic ISSN: 1572-851X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-007-9066-5

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