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Introduction: Queer, Trans, and Feminist Responses to the Prison Nation

Introduction: Queer, Trans, and Feminist Responses to the Prison Nation essays Lisa Guenther and Chloë Taylor The United States has the largest prison population and the highest incarceration rate in the world. Mainstream discussions of mass incarceration often focus on the "disproportionate" number of black men behind bars, as if the challenge were merely to achieve a proportionate level of incarceration for communities of color.1 Federal programs like My Brother's Keeper have initiated a long-overdue conversation about the school-to-prison pipeline and other sites of systemic exclusion; but, as black feminist critics such as Brittney Cooper and Dani McClain have pointed out, the initiative conflates "Opportunity for all" with "Opportunity For Boys and Young Men of Color," failing to acknowledge the challenges faced by girls and young women of color, or to invest equally in their education and support (The White House 2015; see also Cooper 2014 and McClean 2014).2 Meanwhile, black girls are expelled from school at six times the rate of white girls, and they are 20 percent more likely to be incarcerated (U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights 2014, Sherman and Balck 2015). Girls in youth detention report high rates of sexual violence and/or domestic abuse prior to arrest--as high as 80 to 90 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png philoSOPHIA State University of New York Press

Introduction: Queer, Trans, and Feminist Responses to the Prison Nation

philoSOPHIA , Volume 6 (1) – Aug 6, 2016
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essays Lisa Guenther and Chloë Taylor The United States has the largest prison population and the highest incarceration rate in the world. Mainstream discussions of mass incarceration often focus on the "disproportionate" number of black men behind bars, as if the challenge were merely to achieve a proportionate level of incarceration for communities of color.1 Federal programs like My Brother's Keeper have initiated a long-overdue conversation about the school-to-prison pipeline and other sites of systemic exclusion; but, as black feminist critics such as Brittney Cooper and Dani McClain have pointed out, the initiative conflates "Opportunity for all" with "Opportunity For Boys and Young Men of Color," failing to acknowledge the challenges faced by girls and young women of color, or to invest equally in their education and support (The White House 2015; see also Cooper 2014 and McClean 2014).2 Meanwhile, black girls are expelled from school at six times the rate of white girls, and they are 20 percent more likely to be incarcerated (U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights 2014, Sherman and Balck 2015). Girls in youth detention report high rates of sexual violence and/or domestic abuse prior to arrest--as high as 80 to 90

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