Alternative Title
Breaking Out From Binaries Behind Bars
Abstract
The goal of this research was to complete Critical Intersectional Archival Research to find influence of microaggressions against Race, Gender, and Sexuality minorities while under State Detention and ethically express their experiences. This research was performed to discover the connections between marginalized identities and to identify the influence of Social and Structural expectations for behavior that manifest in Authority. How this behavior is carried out in Socially Deviant, marginalized communities; Black, Queer/Trans experiences here as they experience the highest levels of marginalization.
A Major Meta-Analysis was performed for a holistic, Intersectional understanding of Identity Denial through Bio-Socio-Economic Resources before, during, and after experiences of State Surveillance. The three Minor Meta-Analyses within the Major Analysis individually evaluate influences of Race, Gender, and Sexuality respectively on experiences and Reactionary Responses available to Societally Subordinate groups.
Behavior defined as ‘criminal’ exists outside of the accepted goals/means of society, and often occurs when Socially Marginalized populations question Socio-Structural Authority in ways that make sense to them and how their actual needs are met rather than only acknowledging the Allowed Needs supported and enabled by society. These goals/means typically provide and maintain Structured Systems of Behavior to benefit and advance society under the guise of individual pursuit and gain. Dehumanization of Outgroups occurs; silencing them, pushing them away, dismissing them, ignoring what we are truly capable of as humans who believe they have the right to strip another of their Own Humanity. Coincidentally, Deindividuation of the Ingroup occurs, further establishing two Distinct Social Boundaries; those who are allowed to participate in society and those who are not.
This research was completed in hopes of encouraging the following:
REPARATIONS NOT REFORM.
REHABILITATION NOT RECIDIVISM.
ACTION. ACTIVISM. ABOLITION.
CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT
COMPLIANCE
THE BEAUTY IN DIFFERENCES OF EXPRESSION
Advisor
Thomas, Zareen
Department
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Recommended Citation
Larson, Kate, "Breaking Out From Binaries Behind Bars: How Structural Identity Denial Influences Pro/Anti-Social Reactionary Responses and Corresponding Psycho-Social Experiences Inside and Outside the Prison Industrial Complex" (2023). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 10641.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/10641
Disciplines
African American Studies | Behavioral Disciplines and Activities | Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms | Community Health | Criminology | Cultural History | Environmental Public Health | Ethnic Studies | Holistic Education | Humane Education | Indigenous Studies | Inequality and Stratification | Modern Literature | Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Other Mental and Social Health | Other Rehabilitation and Therapy | Politics and Social Change | Prison Education and Reentry | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance | Social History | Social Justice | Social Welfare | United States History
Publication Date
2023
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
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