A review by lewisalex10
Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang

5.0

Incarceration (and the disappearing of “Bodies that arouse feelings of fear, disgust, rage, guilt, or even discomfort”) is a necessary component of imperialist, white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy—and notions of “innocence” and “legitimate victimhood” are used to hide carceral evils in plain sight. This book makes many of these evils plain and also invites us to dream of a world, an existence, beyond prisons. Absolutely worth the read.