Imprisonment for criminality can be triggered by race alone

Evidence

Who is considered a criminal in our society is much more subjective than we like to believe. Innocent Italians, convicted of no wrongdoing, were arrested and lynched, while the white Americans who lynched them were never brought to justice. What happened to Japanese Americans not very long ago is one of the most glaring examples of a people being imprisoned solely because of their race. Simply being of Japanese ancestry was grounds enough for the arrest and imprisonment of more than 100,000 people during World War II, including the Masuda family. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 162

Categorization

• XREF: Establishes the framing Brown will later contrast with Black Americans denied reparations — Japanese American redress is a recurring comparison case in reparations argument. Also connects to Executive Order 9066 content to come. — connects to: Racial states govern by both spatial-social restriction and criminalization — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1690; Racism determines both who becomes a prisoner and what they become — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 146; Racialized policing submerges the individual crime in the offender’s race — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 852 (+9 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Racial states govern by both spatial-social restriction and criminalization — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1690; Racism determines both who becomes a prisoner and what they become — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 146; Racialized policing submerges the individual crime in the offender’s race — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 852 (+9 more)