Walker Michael L
AJS. 2016 Jan;121(4):1051-78. doi: 10.1086/684033.
This article provides a ground-level investigation into the lives of penal inmates, linking the literature on race making and penal management to provide an understanding of racial formation processes in a modern penal institution. Drawing on 135 days of ethnographic data collected as an inmate in a Southern California county jail system, the author argues that inmates are subjected to two mutually constitutive racial projects--one institutional and the other microinteractional. Operating in symbiosis within a narrative of risk management, these racial projects increase (rather than decrease) incidents of intraracial violence and the potential for interracial violence. These findings have implications for understanding the process of racialization and evaluating the effectiveness of penal management strategies.
本文对监狱囚犯的生活进行了实地调查，将关于种族塑造和刑罚管理的文献联系起来，以理解现代监狱机构中的种族形成过程。作者利用在南加州一个县监狱系统作为囚犯收集的135天的人种志数据，认为囚犯受到两个相互构成的种族项目的影响——一个是制度性的，另一个是微观互动性的。在风险管理的叙述中相互共生地运作，这些种族项目增加了（而不是减少了）种族内暴力事件以及种族间暴力的可能性。这些发现对于理解种族化过程和评估刑罚管理策略的有效性具有启示意义。
