For the last three years, the Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy has been an intimate space for me to grow intellectually and get academic support from black philosophers I respect. So many people have been apart of the group such as Cornel West and Howard McGary. Ive sat there and listened to the likes of Michelle Wallace to Neil Painter speak in a living room in the upper west side, trying not to geek out. I am grateful to be part of such a nurturing and intellectually challenging group.
Yesterday, I presented a paper there “State Racism and Mass Incarceration” where I argue that a Foucauldian conception of “race” provides a full picture of mass incarceration rather than a ideological racism view and therefore Foucault makes a valuable contribution to mass incarceration discourse.
