Critical Dialogues: Response to Banu Bargu’s review of Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism

On the one hand, the lack of voices of resistance from the “many individuals who are captured by the prison system” is partially a product of the discourse of disenfranchisement itself. While voting rights might be of particular interest to political scientists, political professionals, and some mai...

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Published in:Perspectives on politics 2015, Vol.13 (3), p.821-822
Main Author: Dilts, Andrew
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Audiences
Civil rights
Civil rights organizations
Correctional system
Disenfranchisement
Ex-convicts
Imprisonment
Liberalism
Membership
Political scientists
Politics
Prisoners
Prisons
Punishment
Race
Racial identity
Resistance
Social exclusion
Voting rights
White supremacy
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Summary:On the one hand, the lack of voices of resistance from the “many individuals who are captured by the prison system” is partially a product of the discourse of disenfranchisement itself. While voting rights might be of particular interest to political scientists, political professionals, and some mainstream Civil Rights organizations, they are also just one of the many “collateral consequences” of incarceration that perform the pernicious work of enforcing white supremacy in the United States. Disenfranchisement has not been a primary site of organizing by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated persons, and perhaps rightly so, as there are more pressing struggles at hand. [...]even when organized resistance against criminal disenfranchisement has emerged, the focus is typically on ex-felon disenfranchisement, with few calls for the rejection of criminal disenfranchisement itself.
ISSN:1537-5927
1541-0986
DOI:10.1017/S1537592715001474