The creation of black criminality in South Africa
There is a seamless transition in how the South African state in tandem with capital, for 400 years utilize prisons to control black bodies.
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Gabeba Baderoon co-directs the African Feminist Initiative at Penn State University and author of Regarding Muslims: from Slavery to Post-Apartheid.
There is a seamless transition in how the South African state in tandem with capital, for 400 years utilize prisons to control black bodies.
Dominant culture in South Africa benignly recall slavery as part of a vaguely picturesque past that left us with beautiful colonial houses, award-winning wines and tourism.
People forget that for 176 years, racial slavery was the central institution in a large part of the territories that would come to form South Africa.