Bound to Preserve the White Self: Speculative Frenzy and the Patriarchal Right to Self-Defense in John Locke and Ida B. Wells

Lester, Quinn

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“…26 For Du Bois, political equality enables democratic agency, in turn imbibing politics with the energy of popular participation (Basevich 2019). This idea is most firmly articulated through the concept of abolition democracy introduced in Black Reconstruction in America ([1935] 2014), a revisionist account that centered Black political agency, rather than political corruption or incompetence, in the history of Reconstruction (Lester 2021). Abolition democracy is a multiclass, multiracial movement waged by both laborers and capitalists-political equals-committed to the abolition of slavery and subjugation.…”

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“This Unfortunate Development”: Incarceration and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois

Mamet

2022

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Incarceration served as a primary apparatus by which abolition democracy was defeated after Reconstruction. Carceral institutions—such as the penitentiary, the convict-lease system, and the chain gang—functioned to demarcate the racial limits of citizenship and to impede equal political power. This article turns to W. E. B. Du Bois to argue that incarceration constrains democratic political equality. Turning to Du Bois’s treatment of crime and imprisonment in works including The Philadelphia Negro (1899), “The Spawn of Slavery” (1901), and The Souls of Black Folk (1903), alongside archival material, I situate incarceration in Du Bois’s democratic thought. According to Du Bois, carceral institutions bounded ideas of full citizenship, fueled panic over Black “criminality,” fomented feelings of inferiority, and hampered the possibility for abolition democracy, a multiracial, multiclass movement committed to worker democracy and a future rid of slavery and subjugation. Du Bois shows us how carceral institutions run into tension with democratic ideals.

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“… 24. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, writing at the same time as Du Bois, makes a similar argument about the emotions underlying lynching and the mechanisms of racial criminalization (Wells-Barnett [1901] 2014; Murakawa 2021; Lester 2022). …”

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“This Unfortunate Development”: Incarceration and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois

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Bound to Preserve the White Self: Speculative Frenzy and the Patriarchal Right to Self-Defense in John Locke and Ida B. Wells

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