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Eating pizza in prison

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Authors

DENYER WILLIS, GRAHAM 

Abstract

jats:titleABSTRACT</jats:title>jats:pPolice work is obviously a question of pursuing subjects. In postslave societies, one figure dominates; police are always after the young Black man. Meanwhile, another distinctive subject of policing exists. In São Paulo, Brazil, police detectives are also worried about the failing White father. He represents a crucial kind of problem: he weakens whiteness by subjecting White children to the indignities that Black children face. His punishment is not incarceration, however. Instead, his punishment is a question of civility and reparation, of being “pedagogical.” Attention to police officers’ decision‐making about these two subjects of everyday policing shows how the long‐standing fallacy of the idealized White family is produced by extracting from the Black family. It reveals the logic of differentiated punishment—jats:italiccivil</jats:italic> and reparative punishment for White men, life in prison or death for Black men and boys—as a mechanism in the constant remediation of whiteness as property and accumulation. [jats:italicwhiteness</jats:italic>, jats:italicpolicing</jats:italic>, jats:italicpunishment</jats:italic>, jats:italicmen</jats:italic>, jats:italicfamily</jats:italic>, jats:italicchild support</jats:italic>, jats:italicrace</jats:italic>, jats:italicSão Paulo, Brazil</jats:italic>]</jats:p>

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Keywords

4407 Policy and Administration, 4402 Criminology, 44 Human Society, 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Journal Title

American Ethnologist

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Journal ISSN

0094-0496
1548-1425

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Publisher

Wiley