Declaring prisons obsolete follows from proving they are racist institutions
Evidence
If we are already persuaded that racism should not be allowed to define the planet’s future and if we can successfully argue that prisons are racist institutions, this may lead us to take seriously the prospect of declaring prisons obsolete. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 61
Categorization
- XREF: The logical capstone of the chapter’s analogy — links the racism argument to the obsolescence thesis. — connects to: The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized.; The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 341; Prison persists as a detestable solution no alternative replaces — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 355
Related
- The prison system is racism’s most reliable institutional refuge. (similarity 0.83)
- Prisons stockpile obsolete ideas like racism and misogyny that society has rejected (similarity 0.82)
- Prison is treated as an inevitable fact of life even in communities it oppresses (similarity 0.81)
- Prison racism operates clandestinely and extends beyond black-white binaries (similarity 0.80)
- Prison reform rhetoric reinforces the prison’s permanence. (similarity 0.79)
- Prison abolition has a long history but remains culturally unthinkable (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized.
#complicates(0.30) - The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate
#complicates(0.30) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 341