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

Readings:

• Sherene Razack. “Racial Terror: Torture and Three Teenagers in Prison.” Borderlands 13.1 (2014): 1-27.
• Nadera Shalhoub‐Kevorkian, “Racism, militarization and policing: police reactions to violence against Palestinian women in Israel.” Social Identities 10.2 (2004): 171-193.
• Nadine Suleiman Naber, “Imperial Whiteness and the Diasporas of Empire.” American Quarterly 66. 4 (2014): 1107-1115.