Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2019

Keywords

structuralism, structural inequality, structural racism, Braudel, mass incarceration, New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander, Forman, Latzer

Abstract

Critics of structural racism frequently miss structuralism as a field of historical inquiry. This essay reviews the rise of structuralism as a mode of historical analysis and applies it to the mass incarceration debate in the United States, arguing that it enriches the work of prevailing scholars in the field.

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