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The Spectral Afterlives of Slavery and the Fallacious U.S. Meritocracy in Jesmyn Ward’s and Quntos KunQuest’s Narratives of Prison

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Analysis of racial discrimination and systemic oppression in narratives of mass incarceration, suggesting a model of community resistance.

Mass incarceration profoundly impacts Black citizens, revealing systemic racial discrimination in the U.S.
The analysis reveals how spectrality in narratives challenges the fallacy of American meritocracy.
Spectrality studies provide insights into the relationship between community solidarity and individual growth within confinement.
This social critique dismantles the underlying inequalities and stigma pervasive in America's rhetoric of progress.

Vanesa Lado-Pazos (2025) studied this question.

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Analysis of racial discrimination and systemic oppression in narratives of mass incarceration, suggesting a model of community resistance.