Rethinking the American prison movement / Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berger, Dan, 1981- author.

Losier, Toussaint, author.

Series:

American social and political movements of the twentieth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons--United States--History.

Prisons.

Imprisonment--United States--History.

Imprisonment.

Prison administration--United States--History.

Prison administration.

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States--History.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 206 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America's prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of the nineteenth century to the rebellious protests of the 1960s and 1970s to the rise of mass incarceration and its discontents, Rethinking the American Prison Movement is invaluable to anyone interested in the history of American prisons and the struggles for justice still echoing in the present day. American Social and Political Movements of the Twentieth Century is a collection of works by top historians that introduces students to the myriad movements that came together in the United States during the twentieth century to expand democracy, reshape the political economy, and increase social justice. Each book provides a concise, synthetic overview and reassessment of one movement's origins and goals, its leading and grassroots figures, its actions and ideas, its serious missteps, and its most important accomplishments. Each book provides students with the opportunity to learn about an American social and political movement through a short, logically laid out, analytically sophisticated, and easy to follow book. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Roots: challenging prison slavery and political repression, 1865-1940

2. Rights: fighting prison Jim Crow, 1940-1968

3. Revolution: the prison rebellion years, 1968-1972

4. Radicalism: unions, feminism, and the crisis of prison managerialism, 1973-1980

5. Retrenchment: mass incarceration and the remaking of the prison movement, 1980-1998

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Berger, Dan, 1981- Rethinking the American prison movement.

ISBN:

9781138786844

1138786845

9781138786851

1138786853

OCLC:

1000150560