The Wind Cries Mary--the Intersectionality of Race, Gender, and Reentry: Challenges for African-American Women
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: To deliver up bodies destined for profitable punishment, the political economy of prisons relies on racialized assumptions of criminality-such as images of black welfare mothers reproducing criminal children-and on racist practices in arrest, conviction, and sentencing patterns.'Angela Davis warned of the impending growth of the prison industrial complex and how it devastates communities.2 The rise of the prison industrial complex has led to the phenomena of mass incarceration. 3 The
Author: Geneva Brown
Institution: St. John's University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2991899403