Social Movements And Mass Incarceration Analysis

Racial justice is difficult to maintain if people are not consistent with challenging laws and institutions that perpetuates racism to occur. For racial justice to be present in America, there should be equity for everyone despite their social and class status. This can happen if people of color and white folks are aware of their difference through education on people of color’s history. However, before envisioning what racial justice would look like, we must first discuss steps on how to achieve this hope. Eliminating carceral states and building love amongst humankind could be a start of this process. In order for racial justice to exist, we must continue to challenge systemic forces and continue educating our white allies on people of color’s …show more content…
He claims that solidarity is the way that people form movements, in which, “... people raise each other’s consciousness and raise each other’s children, movements that fight for the future because they know their history….” (Berger 16). This movement of consciousness builds awareness of the underlying racism in the construction of prison and creating ways to address this issue. America is rapidly moving to become a carceral nation, a nation where the society believes that prisons are the answer to its problems. However, putting people in prisons will not eradicate the problem. Instead, we should examine what causes people to act a certain way by building programs that addresses issues such as mental/physical health, problems in low-income communities, environmental racism, and etc. There should also be more research on how people in the past (before prisons) dealt with criminal issues. In this way, racialization of prison can be eliminated through fair treatment of all people. Eliminating and examining prisons are one of the many ways that we can see racial justice play