Editorial: Race-Class-Gender Articulation and Crime in the US

Abstract

In Black Marxism, Cedric Robinson (1983) presented evidence that the concept of race was first developed internally in Europe for the purpose of identifying different groups of Europeans before the concept was extended to Africans as a result of the Trans Atlantic slavery. Similar evidence is found in Black Women and the Criminal Justice System (Agozino, 1997) where I argued that the poor were seen to belong to a different race and so transportation of poor people to the colonies from Europe was designed to prevent their 'inferior races' from cross-breeding with the 'master race'.