1. In this chapter, Wacquant compares the prison to that of the ghetto as they both have the objective of isolating a dangerous population (the black subproleteriat) in order to reconstruct the ethno-racial division and to force this population into desocialized wage work instead of the illegal market. Slavery, Jim Crowe Laws, and the ghetto in the Northern metropolis were all used to separate Blacks from Whites and to extract black labor either for free or at very low costs by having them work in low-wage, low-skill work. However, the prison has replaced the crumbling ghetto as the means to deal with the worst individuals of the black subproleteriat who cannot find work or refuse to work.
2. The concept that I am having the most difficult
2. The concept that I am having the most difficult