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Mass incarceration is one of the most pressing ethical and
political issues of our time. In this volume, philosophers join
activists and those incarcerated on death row to grapple with
contemporary U.S. punishment practices and draw out critiques
around questions of power, identity, justice, and ethical
responsibility. This work takes shape against a backdrop of
disturbing trends: The United States incarcerates more of its own
citizens than any other country in the world. A disproportionate
number of these prisoners are people of color, and, today, a black
man has a greater chance of going to prison than to college. The
United States is the only Western democracy to retain the death
penalty, even after decades of scholarship, statistics, and even
legal decisions have depicted a deeply flawed system structured by
racism and class oppression. Motivated by a conviction that mass
incarceration and state execution are among the most important
ethical and political problems of our time, the contributors to
this volume come together from a diverse range of backgrounds to
analyze, critique, and envision alternatives to the injustices of
the U.S. prison system, with recourse to deconstruction,
phenomenology, critical race theory, feminism, queer theory, and
disability studies. They engage with the hyper-incarceration of
people of color, the incomplete abolition of slavery, the
exploitation of prisoners as workers and as "raw material" for the
prison industrial complex, the intensive confinement of prisoners
in supermax units, and the complexities of capital punishment in an
age of abolition. The resulting collection contributes to a growing
intellectual and political resistance to the apparent inevitability
of incarceration and state execution as responses to crime and to
social inequalities. It addresses both philosophers and activists
who seek intellectual resources to contest the injustices of
punishment in the United States.
Mass incarceration is one of the most pressing ethical and
political issues of our time. In this volume, philosophers join
activists and those incarcerated on death row to grapple with
contemporary U.S. punishment practices and draw out critiques
around questions of power, identity, justice, and ethical
responsibility. This work takes shape against a backdrop of
disturbing trends: The United States incarcerates more of its own
citizens than any other country in the world. A disproportionate
number of these prisoners are people of color, and, today, a black
man has a greater chance of going to prison than to college. The
United States is the only Western democracy to retain the death
penalty, even after decades of scholarship, statistics, and even
legal decisions have depicted a deeply flawed system structured by
racism and class oppression. Motivated by a conviction that mass
incarceration and state execution are among the most important
ethical and political problems of our time, the contributors to
this volume come together from a diverse range of backgrounds to
analyze, critique, and envision alternatives to the injustices of
the U.S. prison system, with recourse to deconstruction,
phenomenology, critical race theory, feminism, queer theory, and
disability studies. They engage with the hyper-incarceration of
people of color, the incomplete abolition of slavery, the
exploitation of prisoners as workers and as "raw material" for the
prison industrial complex, the intensive confinement of prisoners
in supermax units, and the complexities of capital punishment in an
age of abolition. The resulting collection contributes to a growing
intellectual and political resistance to the apparent inevitability
of incarceration and state execution as responses to crime and to
social inequalities. It addresses both philosophers and activists
who seek intellectual resources to contest the injustices of
punishment in the United States.
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