Racial Capitalism and Abolition

Dispatch 2, The Necessary Road To Unlearning Anti-blackness

“The prison, therefore, functions ideologically as an abstract site into which undesirables are deposited, relieving us of the responsibility of thinking about the real issues afflicting those communities from which prisoners are drawn in such disproportionate numbers. This is the ideological work that the prison performs—it relieves us of the responsib…