Problem
Kelly Lyle Hernández argues that incarceration is a tool of settler colonialism that "operates as a means of purging, removing, caging, containing, erasing, disappearing, and eliminating targeted populations from land, life, and society in the United States." Identify three periods covered by Hernández in which incarceration was used as a tool of elimination and in each, explain the process of racialization that was used within this strategy. Note how the periods overlap and how they differ in both the methods of incarceration and racialization targeted at a group.