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Warfare in the American homeland : policing and prison in a penal democracy / edited by Joy James.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection Pre-2008 Archive Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
James, Joy, 1958-
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Prisons--United States.
Prisons.
Prisoners--United States.
Prisoners.
Imprisonment--United States.
Imprisonment.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Discrimination in law enforcement--United States.
Discrimination in law enforcement.
Minorities--United States.
Minorities.
Social control--United States.
Social control.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (371 p.)
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
A collection of writings by prisoners and scholars that documents the extension of the violence and the repression of the prison establishment into the larger society.
Contents:
Introduction: Violations / Joy James
The prison slave as hegemony's (silent) scandal / Frank B. Wilderson III
Forced passages / Dylan Rodriguez
Sorrow : the good soldier and the good woman / Joy James
War within : a prison interview / Dhoruba Bin Wahad
Domestic warfare : a dialogue / Marshall Eddie Conway
Soledad brother/Blood in my eye (excerpts) / George Jackson
The masked assassination / Michel Foucault, Catherine von Bulow, Daniel Defert
A century of colonialism : one hundred years of Puerto Rican resistance / Oscar Lopez Rivera
Racial profiling and the societies of control / Jared Sexton
Jihadis in the hood : race, urban Islam, and the war on terror / Hishaam Aidi
The effects of repression on women in prison / Marilyn Buck
Ponderings from the eternal now / Carol Gilbert
Resisting the ordinary / Laura Whitehorn (with Susie Day)
Cultures of torture / William F. Pinar
Katrina's unnatural disaster : a tragedy of black suffering and white denial / Manning Marable.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-283-02321-0
9786613023216
0-8223-8974-6
OCLC:
262328118

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