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Radical Philosophy Review, 2014
I t has become customary to begin conversations about the state of punishment in the United State... more I t has become customary to begin conversations about the state of punishment in the United States with a rehearsal of shocking statistics, in the unstated hope that the sheer weight of data will force a policy change. And at this point, it would hopefully be unnecessary to remind readers that the United States has the highest recorded incarceration rate in the world. 1 The statistics, nevertheless, remain shocking-if not surprising. As scholars have recognized for more than a decade, the U.S. penal system is one of "mass incarceration," not simply because of its high rate of imprisonment, but also because of the concentration of its effects on communities of color. 2 Recent reports indicate that rates of imprisonment for Black and Latina/o men and women are twice to over six times as high as those of whites. 3 Indigenous people are also incarcerated in dramatically disproportionate numbers, and women of color are the fastest growing group of people who find themselves behind bars. 4 Moreover, these statistics do not capture the 1.
Book Reviews by Natalie Cisneros
it makes significant philosophical contributions to feminism, epistemology, aesthetics, ontology,... more it makes significant philosophical contributions to feminism, epistemology, aesthetics, ontology, critical philosophy of race, and social and political thought at the same time that it calls into question how we conceive of and organize these areas of study to begin with. Indeed, Light in the Dark/Luz en lo oscuro thematizes the process of thinking, writing, and creating, "question[ing] its own formalizing and ordering attempts, its own strategies, the machinations of thought itself, of theory formulated on an experiential level of discourse" (7). Anzaldúa's excavation of her own writing and thinking practice throughout this text--as well as her unique mode of working between languages and genres--builds on her previous work, but in Light in the Dark/ Luz en lo oscuro her creative process is even more richly rendered. The manuscript itself is composed of six chapters and a preface, distinct but interconnected threads that recast and reimagine central philosophical questions surrounding oppression, resistance, identity, knowledge, and experience. Throughout, Anzaldúa thematizes the practice of writing, analysis, and theoretical work, making vivid the process and possibilities of theory and philosophy.
Radical Philosophy Review, 2014
I t has become customary to begin conversations about the state of punishment in the United State... more I t has become customary to begin conversations about the state of punishment in the United States with a rehearsal of shocking statistics, in the unstated hope that the sheer weight of data will force a policy change. And at this point, it would hopefully be unnecessary to remind readers that the United States has the highest recorded incarceration rate in the world. 1 The statistics, nevertheless, remain shocking-if not surprising. As scholars have recognized for more than a decade, the U.S. penal system is one of "mass incarceration," not simply because of its high rate of imprisonment, but also because of the concentration of its effects on communities of color. 2 Recent reports indicate that rates of imprisonment for Black and Latina/o men and women are twice to over six times as high as those of whites. 3 Indigenous people are also incarcerated in dramatically disproportionate numbers, and women of color are the fastest growing group of people who find themselves behind bars. 4 Moreover, these statistics do not capture the 1.
it makes significant philosophical contributions to feminism, epistemology, aesthetics, ontology,... more it makes significant philosophical contributions to feminism, epistemology, aesthetics, ontology, critical philosophy of race, and social and political thought at the same time that it calls into question how we conceive of and organize these areas of study to begin with. Indeed, Light in the Dark/Luz en lo oscuro thematizes the process of thinking, writing, and creating, "question[ing] its own formalizing and ordering attempts, its own strategies, the machinations of thought itself, of theory formulated on an experiential level of discourse" (7). Anzaldúa's excavation of her own writing and thinking practice throughout this text--as well as her unique mode of working between languages and genres--builds on her previous work, but in Light in the Dark/ Luz en lo oscuro her creative process is even more richly rendered. The manuscript itself is composed of six chapters and a preface, distinct but interconnected threads that recast and reimagine central philosophical questions surrounding oppression, resistance, identity, knowledge, and experience. Throughout, Anzaldúa thematizes the practice of writing, analysis, and theoretical work, making vivid the process and possibilities of theory and philosophy.