“Understanding these connections between the US South & Global South provides not only a broader understanding of global carcerality at present, but that the connection between the invention of "New World" plantation technologies…
in relation to the expansion of empire and the birth of a modern world order teaches us the ways in which power stabilizes itself through the reproduction of technologies of containment.
Apr 27, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
for those asking how I’m landing at the connecting (neo)liberalism back to slavery + the plantation, I could point you to many sources but Bobby Wilson really clears in
_America’s Johannesburg_ (thread):
“racial discourse enabled the ruling class to exercise hegemony by supplying the system of belief that kept the masses from questioning their rulers’ actions. contrary to marxist theory, the rule of one class over another does not depend totally on economic domination...