Mass incarceration has been shown to be a force of racializations and class inequality in US life, but little literature has focused on the lives of prison guards. Highlighting the lived experiences of prison guards at two state maximum security prisons in Elmira, New York, a small multiracial city in central New York State, this article uses Cedric Robinson's notion of racial capitalism to show how prison expansion unfolds in New York State at the end of the twentieth century. Guard labor includes both the physical work of control and of basic social reproduction and is done by people who are connected to the cultures, histories, and political economies in which they were raised, what Elmirans often call one's “hometown.” I examine prison guards’ narratives of their racial encounters inside and outside the prison, their sense of their racialized selves, and their relationship to what they see as often boring, violent, and stigmatized work. I show how the expansion of the carceral state over the past forty years, the period most often referred to as mass incarceration, maintains Fordism's labor hierarchies in a retooled racialization: as jailer and jailed. [prisons, whiteness, carceral state, racial capitalism, post-Fordism]

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家乡监狱：纽约州北部的白人、安全和监狱工作

大规模监禁已被证明是美国生活中种族化和阶级不平等的一种力量，但很少有文献关注监狱看守的生活。本文重点介绍了纽约州中部多种族小城市埃尔迈拉 (Elmira) 两所州级最高安全监狱狱警的生活经历，本文使用塞德里克·罗宾逊 (Cedric Robinson) 的种族资本主义概念来展示纽约州监狱扩张在二十世纪末。警卫劳动包括控制和基本社会再生产的体力劳动，由与他们长大的文化、历史和政治经济相关的人完成，埃尔米拉斯通常称之为“家乡”。我检查监狱看守关于他们在监狱内外的种族遭遇的叙述，他们对自己种族化的自我意识，以及他们与他们所认为的无聊、暴力和被污名化的工作的关系。我展示了过去四十年监狱国家的扩张，最常被称为大规模监禁的时期，如何在重组的种族化中维持福特主义的劳工等级：作为狱卒和入狱。[监狱、白人、监狱国家、种族资本主义、后福特主义]