Overall i really have enjoyed Cacho's very important book which analysis "how race and space are imagined" thus it " governs how neighborhoods of color and their residents will be managed". Immediately began to compare Cacho work with Michelle Alexanders important work which analyzes the criminalization of african american communities. And i think something very important we may discuss in class today is in what ways can criminalized populations resist a system that is nothing more than a system of social control for bodies that are casted as "other:" than white?
What i appreciated about Cachos work is her dedication to analyze how bodies of color have been criminalized and and as a result stand outside the protection of the law, but not necessarily excluded from the law. Cacho argues that "criminalized populations and the places where they live form the foundation of the U.S. legal system, imagined to be the reason why a punitive (in)justice system exists". and lastly I was very intrigued by Cachos argument of "unfamiliarized" those narratives that continue to disempower those who have been marginalized.
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