Unit 9: State Violence

What gives rise to the moral acceptance of violence directed at these three teenagers? In proposing that we consider race as central to what happens in these prisons, I have in mind that each of the three was evicted from the category of the human, marked, that is, as less than fully human and as belonging to a group against whom violence is authorized and deemed necessary. The treatment meted out to each one secures a social order in which whiteness and rationality are the defining features of citizenship.

Sherene Razack