The Multicultural Prison: Ethnicity, Masculinity, and Social
Relations among Prisoners presents a unique sociological analysis
of the daily negotiation of ethnic difference within the closed
world of the male prison. At a time when issues of race,
multiculture, and racialization inside the prison have been
somewhat neglected, this book considers how multiple identities
configure social interactions among prisoners in late modern
prisoner society, whilst also recognising the significance of
religion, age, masculinity, national, and local identifications.
Contemporary political policies, which sees racialised
incarceration together with penal expansion, has fostered the
disproportionate incarceration of diverse British national,
foreign, and migrant populations - all of whom are brought into
close proximity within the confines of the prison. Using rich
empirical material drawn from extensive qualitative research in
Rochester Young Offenders' Institution and Maidstone prison, the
author presents vivid prisoner accounts from both white and
minority ethnic participants, describing economically and socially
marginalised lives outside. In turn, these stories provide a
backdrop to the inside - the interior world of the prison where
ethnicity still shapes social relations but in a contingent
fashion. Addressing both the negotiation and tensions inherent in
conducting such research, the central discussion evolves from a
frank dialogue about ethnic, faith, and masculine identities,
constituted through loose solidarities based on 'postcode
identities', to a more startling comprehension of such divisions
as, in some cases, a means for cultural hybridity in prison
cultures. More commonly, though, these divisions act as a familiar
fault line, creating wary, unstable, and antagonistic relations
among prisoners. Providing an arresting insight into how race is
written into prison social relations, The Multicultural Prison adds
a unique and outstanding voice to the challenging issues of
discrimination, inequality, entitlement, and preferential treatment
from the perspective of diverse groups of prisoners.
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