Keeping Black Motherhood Out of Prison: Prison Reform and Woman Saving in the Progressive Era

Brown, Nicola

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“…13 T. Thomas Fortune attacked the “brutality” of convict leasing (Fortune [1884] 2022, 44). Likewise, Mary Church Terrell wrote and organized against convict leasing, part of a large network of Black clubwomen who organized to abolish convict leasing and the chain gang (Parker 2010, 206–11; N. Brown 2019, 20–26; Parker 2020, 89–90).…”

Section: “Crime Is Not Normal”: Du Bois’s Sociology Of Crime and Puni...mentioning

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

Mamet

2022

Political Theory

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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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Section: “Crime Is Not Normal”: Du Bois’s Sociology Of Crime and Puni...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Mamet

2022

Political Theory

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Keeping Black Motherhood Out of Prison: Prison Reform and Woman Saving in the Progressive Era

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

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

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