Appell & Davis on Mass Incarceration and Masculinity through a Black Feminist Lens

Annette Ruth Appell (pictured) and Adrienne D. Davis (Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law and Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law) have poosted Access to Justice: Mass Incarceration and Masculinity through a Black Feminist Lens (Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2011) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

This Introduction to the Symposium, Race to Justice: Mass Incarceration and Masculinity through a Black Feminist Lens, rehearses the animating forces that led to a colloquium and a series of papers that explore the question of mass incarceration and the negative state engagement surrounding it through gendered and feminist lenses. The Introduction explains how an analysis of mass incarceration through the lens of gender complicates what is often conceived as a story about race. Instead mass incarceration can be more deeply understood through its gendered effects on men and the women and children connected to those men. These connections include the social and economic conditions of the community, new forms of sexuality experienced in prison, and resulting changes in identity. Building on the work of Angela Davis and Beth Ritchie, this symposium and its papers provide new insights and frameworks for mass incarceration. Symposium authors include Angela Harris, Frank Rudy Cooper, SpearIt, Kimberly Bailey, Jessica Dixon Weaver.