Roundtable: White Supremacy within Abolitionist Spaces

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The purpose of this roundtable is to explore how abolitionist spaces can and do end up expressing the White Supremacy that abolitionists readily accuse “criminal justice” spaces of. Inspired by a pinpointing of silencing work that occurred in a 2016 ASC Penal Abolition session, this roundtable is a discussion by all those present about how to shift intellectual organizing and social practices in abolitionist spaces that fail to confront and dismantle racism, colorblindness, marginalization, and silencing.

Sub Unit

• Area XIII: Roundtable Sessions

Division of Special Interest

• Divisions of Special Interest / Division on Terrorism & Bias Crime

Chair

• Viviane Saleh-Hanna, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Discussants

• Tammi Arford, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

• Scott W. Bowman, Texas State University

• Michael J. Coyle, California State University, Chico

• Luis A. Fernandez, Northern Arizona University

• Meghan G. McDowell, Winston-Salem State University