Race and Gender Theories of Punishment, Predation, and Political Imagination

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

Theorizing US politics from the perspective of race, gender, and feminism provides a unique vantage point to understand a range of issues, including misogyny and white supremacy, (the limits of) empathy and emancipatory politics, punishment and the criminal legal system, and the uses of indebtedness to reproduce antiblack relations. This panel centers these issues in the past and present, narrating the raced and gendered contours of both oppression and possibility.

Sub Unit

• Division 42: Critical Political Science (formerly New Political Science)

Individual Presentations

• Predatory Occasions - Justin Brooks

• The Many-Headed Hydra of Racist Misogyny - Mary McThomas, University of California, Irvine

• The Punishing State: Punishment, Social Control, and Social Services - Kaneesha Johnson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• The Revolution Will Not Be Empathized: Political Imagination’s Affective Limits - Miranda Lace, Harvard University

Chair

• Charisse Burden-Stelly Wayne State University

Discussant

• Kevin Anthony Henderson Mount Holyoke College