Inheriting the criminalized black body: race, gender, and slavery in Eva's Man.

African American Review | September 22, 2005| | Copyright

The question is not whether slavery still exists but whether people still treat each other as if it did. (Roach 231)

It is secret that racial minorities constitute a disproportionate percentage of those incarcerated in the United States. According to the Human Rights Watch ("World Report 2000"), blacks in 1999 constituted 46.5 percent of state prisoners and 40 percent of federal prisoners, even though they only make up 12 percent of the national population. For women, the statistics are particularly striking. "Black non-Hispanic females (with an incarceration rate of ...

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