Orisanmi Burton
Biographic Data
| ID | 144175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Orisanmi Burton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Orisanmi |
| FAMILY NAME | Burton |
| SIGNATURE | BURTON O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology American University Washington DC 20016 USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8575-3217 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Targeting Revolutionaries
This essay traces the emergence of the carceral warfare project, a clandestine campaign to infuse US prisons with the logics and techniques of counterinsurgency. First exposed by Black Liberation Army member Dhoruba bin-Wahad, the project came into being between 1970 and 1978. The article begins by discussing the theory undergirding the carceral warfare project, a reactionary idea known as "the issue exploitation thesis." Starting in 1970, season…
Captivity, Kinship, and Black Masculine Care Work under Domestic Warfare
This article examines the forms of intergenerational kinship and care work that Black men perform within and beyond US prisons. First, I offer a historical conceptualization of domestic warfare as a multilayered process that targets Black radical activism, social/familial life, and the interiority of Black subjectivity. I argue that the rupturing of intimacy and familial relationships precipitated by the prison should be understood not as an inci…
Organized Disorder: The New York City Jail Rebellion of 1970
To Protect and Serve Whiteness
Critics of policing often utter the phrase ‘to protect and serve,’ in order to point out the gap between discourses of ethical policing and practices of punitive policing in black communities. However, the present analysis asserts that a more appropriate representation of the policing function is ‘to protect and serve whiteness .’ Drawing ethnographic observations, the Ferguson Report and Officer Darren Wilson’s Grand Jury Testimony, I shift the …
Captivity, Kinship, and Black Masculine Care Work under Domestic Warfare
This article examines the forms of intergenerational kinship and care work that Black men perform within and beyond US prisons. First, I offer a historical conceptualization of domestic warfare as a multilayered process that targets Black radical activism, social/familial life, and the interiority of Black subjectivity. I argue that the rupturing of intimacy and familial relationships precipitated by the prison should be understood not as an inci…
Organized Disorder: The New York City Jail Rebellion of 1970
Targeting Revolutionaries
This essay traces the emergence of the carceral warfare project, a clandestine campaign to infuse US prisons with the logics and techniques of counterinsurgency. First exposed by Black Liberation Army member Dhoruba bin-Wahad, the project came into being between 1970 and 1978. The article begins by discussing the theory undergirding the carceral warfare project, a reactionary idea known as "the issue exploitation thesis." Starting in 1970, season…
To Protect and Serve Whiteness
Critics of policing often utter the phrase ‘to protect and serve,’ in order to point out the gap between discourses of ethical policing and practices of punitive policing in black communities. However, the present analysis asserts that a more appropriate representation of the policing function is ‘to protect and serve whiteness .’ Drawing ethnographic observations, the Ferguson Report and Officer Darren Wilson’s Grand Jury Testimony, I shift the …
Organized Disorder: The New York City Jail Rebellion of 1970
Captivity, Kinship, and Black Masculine Care Work under Domestic Warfare
This article examines the forms of intergenerational kinship and care work that Black men perform within and beyond US prisons. First, I offer a historical conceptualization of domestic warfare as a multilayered process that targets Black radical activism, social/familial life, and the interiority of Black subjectivity. I argue that the rupturing of intimacy and familial relationships precipitated by the prison should be understood not as an inci…
Targeting Revolutionaries
This essay traces the emergence of the carceral warfare project, a clandestine campaign to infuse US prisons with the logics and techniques of counterinsurgency. First exposed by Black Liberation Army member Dhoruba bin-Wahad, the project came into being between 1970 and 1978. The article begins by discussing the theory undergirding the carceral warfare project, a reactionary idea known as "the issue exploitation thesis." Starting in 1970, season…
Criminology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Prison (2 works) · American Political and Social Dynamics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Communism (1 works)