Dylan Rodríguez

Dylan Rodríguez is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside.

The present tense of (racial) slavery: the racial chattel logic of the US prison

The US prison regime functions through a racial chattel logic. Its animating force is not economic exploitation but rather racialized social reorganization and neutralization.

By Dylan Rodríguez

/ 18 Jun 2015