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Bezig met laden... Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality (editie 1998)door Luana Ross
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. On the whole I found the title fairly misleading. We do get a bit of history at the beginning, and a particularly good case study at the end, but the central focus of the book seems to be on the hardships faced by women living in prisons. There is a particular focus on issues regarding mothering, rehabilitation, abuse, and discrimination against American Indian women. These topics are well-covered, and intriguing. However, much less attention is paid to how women actually wound up in the prisons, or how the concept of "the savage" was invented. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Luana Ross writes, "Native Americans disappear into Euro-American institutions of confinement at alarming rates. People from my reservation appeared to simply vanish and magically return. [As a child] I did not realize what a 'real' prison was and did not give it any thought. I imagined this as normal; that all families had relatives who went away and then returned." In this pathfinding study, Ross draws upon the life histories of imprisoned Native American women to demonstrate how race/ethnicity, gender, and class contribute to the criminalizing of various behaviors and subsequent incarceration rates. Drawing on the Native women's own words, she reveals the violence in their lives prior to incarceration, their respective responses to it, and how those responses affect their eventual criminalization and imprisonment. Comparisons with the experiences of white women in the same prison underline the significant role of race in determining women's experiences within the criminal justice system. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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