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American Politics
Apartheid
Author_Brittany Michelle Friedman
Captive Money Lab
Carceral Apartheid
Carceral Governance
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Civil Rights
Correctional Policy
Coverups
Creative Collaboration
Criminal Justice Reform
Criminology
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Equity Research
Genocide
Institutional Racism
Law and Society
Law Enforcement
Legal Sociology
Penal System
Prisons & Prison Life
Public Sociology
Race Relations
Racial Inequality
Racial Terror
Social Innovation
Social Justice
Sociology
Systemic Oppression
U.S. Empire
White Supremacy
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- ISBN 9781469683409
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jan 2025
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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It is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons. There is a particular power dynamic of racist intent in the prison system that culminates in what Brittany Friedman terms ""carceral apartheid."" Prisons are a microcosm of how carceral apartheid operates as a larger governing strategy to decimate political targets and foster deceit, disinformation, and division in society.
Among many shocking discoveries, Friedman shows that beginning in the 1950s, California prison officials declared war on imprisoned Black people and sought to identify Black militants as a key problem, creating a strategy for the management, segregation, and elimination of these individuals from the prison population that continues into the present day. Carceral Apartheid delves into how the California Department of Corrections deployed various official, clandestine, and at times extralegal control techniques, including officer alliances with imprisoned white supremacists, to suppress Black political movements, revealing the broader themes of deception, empire, corruption, and white supremacy in American mass incarceration. Drawing from original interviews with founders of Black political movements such as the Black Guerilla Family, white supremacists, and a swath of little-known archival data, Friedman uncovers how the US domestic war against imprisoned Black people models and perpetuates genocide, imprisonment, and torture abroad.
Among many shocking discoveries, Friedman shows that beginning in the 1950s, California prison officials declared war on imprisoned Black people and sought to identify Black militants as a key problem, creating a strategy for the management, segregation, and elimination of these individuals from the prison population that continues into the present day. Carceral Apartheid delves into how the California Department of Corrections deployed various official, clandestine, and at times extralegal control techniques, including officer alliances with imprisoned white supremacists, to suppress Black political movements, revealing the broader themes of deception, empire, corruption, and white supremacy in American mass incarceration. Drawing from original interviews with founders of Black political movements such as the Black Guerilla Family, white supremacists, and a swath of little-known archival data, Friedman uncovers how the US domestic war against imprisoned Black people models and perpetuates genocide, imprisonment, and torture abroad.
Brittany Friedman is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California.
