This study contributes to efforts already underway to attend to the reproduction of white supremacy and the ways whiteness manifests across contexts. We examine whiteness and white racial identity development among incarcerated youth, both a group and place not often studied in relation to these two concepts. Using critical ethnographic methods, we explore how processes of white identity development unfold among incarcerated white youth and the ways in which whiteness is lived, negotiated, and challenged within the carceral context. Findings suggest that white youth used pre-existing racial scripts about race, whiteness, and criminality to make sense of and navigate life in the carceral context. Still, we found that these racial scripts were often seeped in anti-black racist logics about criminality in service of whiteness and the construction of superior white identities.

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街区里的白人孩子：关于被监禁白人青年的种族、身份和犯罪行为

这项研究有助于已经进行的努力，以关注白人至上的再现以及白人在不同背景下的表现方式。我们研究了被监禁青年中的白人和白人种族身份的发展，这两个群体和地方都很少与这两个概念相关。我们使用批判的民族志方法，探讨白人身份发展的过程如何在被监禁的白人青年中展开，以及白人在监狱环境中的生活、协商和挑战方式。调查结果表明，白人青年使用预先存在的关于种族、白人和犯罪行为的种族脚本来理解和驾驭监狱环境中的生活。仍然，