Summary Of Masked Racism By Angela Davis
In Angela Davis' "Masked Racism: Reflections of the Prison Industrial Complex", she focuses on the aspect of imprisonment in our society and how racism is involved in this light. "These problems often are veiled by being conveniently grouped together under the category 'crime' and by the automatic attribution of criminal behavior to people of color" (Davis). She also explains how prison labor is profitable for certain private companies. Davis continues how the government earns from prisons and how many more women are punished in prisons all our country. Davis shares the statistic,
"More than 70 percent of the imprisoned population are people of color. It is rarely acknowledged that the fastest growing group of prisoners are black women and
"More than 70 percent of the imprisoned population are people of color. It is rarely acknowledged that the fastest growing group of prisoners are black women and