Abstract

DUARTE, EVANDRO PIZA; QUEIROZ, MARCOS VINÍCIUS LUSTOSA  and  GARCIA, RAFAEL DE DEUS. The Attica Prison Uprising (New York, 1971): Racial Oppression, Mass Incarceration and the Rhetoric of Equality. Estud. Socio-Juríd [online]. 2020, vol.22, n.1, pp.113-144. ISSN 0124-0579.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/sociojuridicos/a.7643.

Inspired on the film Attica - Against The Wall, which portrays the rebellion of Attica prisoners for rights and better conditions, this article analyzes the phenomenon of mass incarceration in the United States that started at the beginning of 1970. Considering this episode as an interpretive turning point in US social and criminal policies, we intend to identify which discourses, ideas, and practices were articulated to neutralize the achievements of the social movements of 1950 and 1960. We proceed to identify how these movements justified the intense growth of surveillance and punitive power. We also aim to understand how the advancement of law enforcement works as an essential device for the non-achievement of black citizenship. Finally, by notable similarities, we made a comparison between the US and Brazilian realities.

Keywords : Racism; penal system; Attica; mass incarceration; citizenship.

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