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+Police are not just legal enforcement. Their right to enforce laws is justified by their ability to control the surveillance state. FOUCAULT: |
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+Michel Foucault. Discipline and Punish (1975), PanopticismIII. DISCIPLINE 3. Panopticism. From Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (NY: Vintage Books 1995) pp. 195-228 translated from the French by Alan Sheridan © 1977 |
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+“But, although the ... for all by a state apparatus.” |
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+And, in the context of language words like “police officers” cannot escape their social meaning. Social epistemology governs all thought and conceptions of agency. MILLS: |
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+“Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance” 2007 Edited by Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana – Chapter One: “White Ignorance” by Charles W. Mills // LM-DD |
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+“Start with perception. A central ... it is there or not.” (25) |
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+IMPACT: Surveillance is an extension of plantation security logic. This form of disciplinary power marks black bodies as hyper-visible and subject to the white gaze. BROWNE: |
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+Race and Surveillance Simone Browne 2012 Routledge International Handbooks : Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies.:Taylor and Francic, p 105 |
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+“According to Christian Parenti, the ... a “technology of whiteness” |
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+AND, the ability to control the black gaze has allowed whiteness to become invisible and blackness remains hyper-visible. This creates an epistemically ethnocentric starting point for ethics and allows white supremacy to remain omnipresent. |
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+HOOKS: |
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+bell hooks~-~- Black looks: race and representation / Bell Hooks. p.cm. Includes bibliographic references. ISBN 0-89608-433-7 Pg 168 |
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+“In white supremacist society, whites people can "safely" imagine that they are invisible to black ... this fantasy which makes whiteness synonymous with goodness” |
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+The alternative is to abolish police. Small scale reforms cannot solve; they only re-entrench the system. Abolition is key. HOTCHKIN: |
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+Accountability Is Futile – Abolish the PoliceNOVEMBER 12, 2015 BY JOSHUA SCOTT HOTCHKIN 52 COMMENTS//KINGAK HOTCHKIN |
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+“Accountability is futile. ... come back to this.” |