Dubois Theory Of Women In Prison
This paper will go into great details about how mothers who are in the U.S. Justice Department’s Bureau of Prison are torn away from their family and after serving their time placed back into the community. When talking about women in prison most research forget the effect on the children and their families. The first half of the paper will discuss women behind bars and how leaving their families and children can affect them and the second half of the paper will discuss the Dubois theory of double consciousness and the women transitioning into the free world. “Although they constitute only 7.5% of inmates (West & Sabol, 2009), female offenders are the fastest growing population in the America’s prisons today” (Celinska and Siegal, 2010, p.
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The veil is seen with society and the inmate as a whole. Ex-inmates are the ones under the veil because society tries to pretend that these are not there. Society know inmates are there, but do not know the inmate’s culture; however, the inmates do understand the society’s culture because they were once there before. With these inmates having the second sight they have more of advance in their society because they know both worlds. Even though their lifestyles are different they have an insight of the prison system and of the free world. Second sight is an inmate and someone who is a part of society mixed into one. This person has two viewpoints, two souls, two thoughts, and two different ways to thrive in both environments. A quote from Du Bois’ book The Souls of Black Folks gave a great definition of second sight: “A world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world” (1903). Ex-inmates are often torn apart by those opposite forces that society has created from them. Here is where the actually thought process comes into place for these inmates. However, these inmates now have to live in different worlds with a totally different background and culture that they have to hide in order to be accepted into the free world. The Souls of Black Folks define double consciousness as “self of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of the world that looks on in amused contempt and pity” (Du Bois,
The veil is seen with society and the inmate as a whole. Ex-inmates are the ones under the veil because society tries to pretend that these are not there. Society know inmates are there, but do not know the inmate’s culture; however, the inmates do understand the society’s culture because they were once there before. With these inmates having the second sight they have more of advance in their society because they know both worlds. Even though their lifestyles are different they have an insight of the prison system and of the free world. Second sight is an inmate and someone who is a part of society mixed into one. This person has two viewpoints, two souls, two thoughts, and two different ways to thrive in both environments. A quote from Du Bois’ book The Souls of Black Folks gave a great definition of second sight: “A world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world” (1903). Ex-inmates are often torn apart by those opposite forces that society has created from them. Here is where the actually thought process comes into place for these inmates. However, these inmates now have to live in different worlds with a totally different background and culture that they have to hide in order to be accepted into the free world. The Souls of Black Folks define double consciousness as “self of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of the world that looks on in amused contempt and pity” (Du Bois,