Race and the Carceral State

Abstract In this chapter, the author describes relationships between race, class formation, and “carceralism.” Carceralism describes sets of social, economic, and political practices and systems where surveillance, capture, confinement, and forced mobility stem from and reify broader institutions of oppression. This chapter focuses on race and three predominating carceral phenomena to understand carceralism: mass incarceration, the prison industrial complex, and the carceral state. Each section