Caging borders and carceral states incarcerations, immigration detentions, and resistance / edited by Robert T. Chase.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chase, Robert T., editor.

Series:

Justice, power, and politics.

Justice, power, and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detention of persons--United States--History--20th century.

Detention of persons.

Race discrimination--United States--States--History--20th century.

Race discrimination.

Imprisonment--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.

Imprisonment.

Imprisonment--Southern States--History--20th century.

West (U.S.)--Race relations--History.

West (U.S.).

Southern States--Race relations--History.

Southern States.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 pages).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

Summary:

"This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways in which people have been caged and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, coercive legal powers, and national sovereignty. As these studies depict the institutional development and state scaffolding of overlapping carceral regimes, they also consider how prisoners and immigrants resisted such oppression and violence by drawing on the transnational politics of human rights and liberation, transcending the isolation of incarceration and the boundaries of domestic law"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Carceral shadows : entangled lineages and technologies of migrant detention / David Manuel Hernandez

The means and meanings of carceral mobility : U.S. deportation trains and the early twentieth-century deportation assemblage / Ethan Blue

Scorpion's tale : a borderlands history of Mexican imprisonment in the Sunbelt / Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Cultural resilience as resistance : the world of Mexican prisoners in Texas / George T. Diaz

They are all she had : formerly incarcerated women and the right to vote, 1890-1945 / Pippa Holloway

Menacing (re)production : the commodification and de-commodification of incarcerated black women's wombs and work / Talitha L. LeFlouria

Whatever happened to the Southern chain gang? Reinventing the road prison in Sunbelt Florida / Vivien Miller

Private prisons : where the Sunbelt casts its global shadow / Volker Janssen

Blood in, blood out : the emergence of California prison gangs in the 1960s / Heather McCarty

The path to Pelican Bay : the origins of the Supermax prison in the shadow of the law, 1982-1989 / Keramet Reiter

The Clintons' war on drugs : why black lives didn't matter / Donna Murch

From Dachau with love : George Jackson, black radical memory, and the transnational political vision of prison abolition / Dan Berger

The spider's web : mass incarceration and settler custodialism in Indian country / Douglas K. Miller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890848291

9798890848307

9781469651255

1469651254

9781469651262

1469651262

OCLC:

1096281383