Prison racism operates clandestinely and extends beyond black-white binaries

Evidence

For the moment I am concentrating on the history of antiblack racism in order to make the point that the prison reveals congealed forms of antiblack racism that operate in clandestine ways. In other words, they are rarely recognized as racist. But there are other racialized histories that have affected the development of the U.S. punishment system as well—the histories of Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian-Americans. These racisms also congeal and combine in the prison. Because we are so accustomed to talking about race in terms of black and white, we often fail to recognize and contest expressions of racism that target people of color who are not black. Consider the mass arrests and detention of people of Middle Eastern, South Asian, or Muslim heritage in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 62

Categorization

• XREF: The clandestine-racism claim connects to how colorblindness masks continuing racism, and post-9/11 detention as prison racism. — connects to: Prisons preserve racist and misogynist practices society has nominally abandoned; Prisons stockpile obsolete ideas like racism and misogyny that society has rejected — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 221; The prison system is racism’s most reliable institutional refuge. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 275

Related

• The prison system is racism’s most reliable institutional refuge. (similarity 0.87)
• Prisons stockpile obsolete ideas like racism and misogyny that society has rejected (similarity 0.81)
• Declaring prisons obsolete follows from proving they are racist institutions (similarity 0.80)
• Slavery, lynching, and segregation each institutionalized a distinct form of racism (similarity 0.79)
• Prisons preserve racist and misogynist practices society has nominally abandoned (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The prison system is racism’s most reliable institutional refuge. #corroborates (0.60) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 275
• Prisons preserve racist and misogynist practices society has nominally abandoned #corroborates (0.55)
• Prisons stockpile obsolete ideas like racism and misogyny that society has rejected #corroborates (0.55) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 221