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| == Theorie und Methode == | | == Theorie und Methode == |
| In his work, "Deadly symbiosis: when ghetto and prison meet and mesh" in Punishment and Society 3(1) (pp 95-134), Wacquant does not offer, as Howard Winant asks of sociologists, a comprehensive race theory. Instead he offers a middle-range theory, relevant mainly to American racism against blacks in contemporary society. According to Wacquant, African-Americans now live "in the first prison society of history" (p. 121). This is the fourth stage in what is now path-dependent, after slavery, Jim Crow, and the early ghettos. According to him, the ghetto and the prison are now almost the same thing, reinforcing each other to assure the exclusion of African-Americans from the general society, with governmental encouragement.
| | Laut Wacquant leben Afro-Amerikaner "in the first prison society of history" (2001: 121)- dem vierten Stadium nach Sklaverei, Jim Crow und frühem Ghettoleben. Ghetto und Gefängnis werden ununterscheidbar und gegenseitig verstärkend und sind dabei, Afro-Amerikaner aus der allgemeinen Gesellschaft mit Unterstützung der Regierung auszuschließen. |
| The ghetto and the prison are now locked in a whirlpool, when it is no longer clear which is the egg and which is the chicken: the two look the same and have the same function (p. 115). The life in the ghetto almost necessarily leads to more criminal behavior, yet Wacquant presents statistics that show that the distribution of crime between black and white has not changed. Instead he shows that a black, young, man is now "equated with 'probable cause' justifying the arrest" (p. 117). And in the prisons, a black culture is being reinforced by "professional" inmates, a culture which later affects the street.
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| In his book Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, Wacquant denounces popular mainstream conceptions of the underclass and argues that the boxing gym is one of the many institutions that is contained within, and opposed, to the ghetto. He also explores, through an account of his own experiences as an apprentice boxer in a black ghetto of Chicago, the elaborate process by which the "body capital" of these athletes is formed and managed. | | In "Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer" vertritt Wacquant die These vom Boxstudio im Ghetto als einer internen Opposition zum Ghettoleben. Zugleich rekonstruiert er aus beobachtender Teilnahme in einem schwarzen Boxstudio in Chicago den Prozess der Formung und des Managements von "Körperkapital". |
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| == Kritik == | | == Kritik == |