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The Straight Line from Slavery to Mass Incarceration
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
15 Oct 2018
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The US model of mass incarceration can only be understood as an extension of slavery, said Martha Escobar, author of Captivity Beyond Prisons: Criminalization Experiences of Latina Immigrants. “Bringing non-white bodies into this country to labor for a predominantly white society has been the model that has carried over as immigrants entered the United States,” said Escobar, a professor of Chicano Studies at California State University at Northridge.

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