White supremacy survived slavery by re-inscribing itself in new institutions

Evidence

It took a long and violent civil war in order to legally disestablish the “peculiar institution/’ Even though the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed involuntary servitude, white supremacy continued to be embraced by vast numbers of people and became deeply inscribed in new institutions. One of these post-slavery institutions was lynching, which was widely accepted for many decades thereafter. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 54

Categorization

• XREF: Directly foreshadows how racism re-inscribes itself in the prison system — the institutional continuity thesis central to the book. — connects to: Colonial administrators promoted racial division to secure white loyalty and preserve slavery; Slavery, lynching, and segregation each institutionalized a distinct form of racism — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 59; Post-emancipation forced labor pushed Black resistance toward new ideologies — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434 (+6 more)

Related

• White supremacy survives individual whites’ deaths because it is institutional (similarity 0.82)
• Slavery, lynching, and segregation each institutionalized a distinct form of racism (similarity 0.81)
• Institutions once deemed inevitable became unthinkable through political struggle (similarity 0.80)
• Post-slavery prisons reabsorbed emancipated black labor through the convict lease system (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Post-slavery prisons reabsorbed emancipated black labor through the convict lease system #exemplifies (0.85) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 253
• Black labor exploitation continued in new forms after slavery’s legal abolition #corroborates (0.80)
• Slavery, lynching, and segregation each institutionalized a distinct form of racism #expands (0.70) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 59
• Post-emancipation forced labor pushed Black resistance toward new ideologies #expands (0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434
• White supremacist attacks transcend national borders via shared colonial history #expands (0.50)