Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives : The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader / by M. Marable, K. Middlemass, I. Steinberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marable, M., Author.

Middlemass, K., Author.

Steinberg, I., Author.

Series:

Critical Black Studies, 2945-7424

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

Social structure.

Equality.

Human rights.

African Americans.

Culture.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Social Structure.

Human Rights.

African American Culture.

Local Subjects:

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Social Structure.

Human Rights.

African American Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2007.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

African Americans today face a systemic crisis of mass underemployment, mass imprisonment, and mass disfranchisement. This comprehensive reader makes clear to students the mutual constitution of these three crises.

Contents:

Introduction: Racializing justice, disenfranchising lives / Manning Marable

I. The criminal justice system and the new racial domain. 1. The hypercriminalization of Black and Latino male youth in the era of mass incarceration / Victor M. Rios

2. Reconstructing race and crime : the radical tradition revisited / Tony Platt

3. The condemnation of Little B / Elaine Brown

4. The Rockefeller drug laws / Robert Gangi

5. Racism and capital punishment / George Kendall

6. "In defense of Mumia" : the political economy of race, class, gender, and social death / Leonard Weinglass

II. Women, violence, and incarceration. 7. The effect of the prison-industrial complex on African American women / Natalie J. Sokoloff

8. Toward a Black feminist liberation agenda : race, gender, and violence / Kristen Clarke

9. The female bogeyman : political implications of criminalizing Black women / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery

10. A bad relationship : violence in the lives of incarcerated Black women / Nikki Jones

III. Racism, law, and public policy. 11. Reassessing race specificity in American law and public policy / Lorenzo Morris and Donn G. Davis

12. "Tell the court I love my [Indian] wife" : interrogating race and self-identity in Loving v. Virginia / Arica L. Coleman

13. Resistance, redemption, and transformation : African American and Latino prisoners living with the HIV/AIDS virus / Laura T. Fishman

14. The cactus that must not be mistaken for a pillow : white racial formation among Latinos / Daniel M. Rochmes and G.A. Elmer Griffin

IV. Voting rights and disenfranchisement. 15. Unfit to vote : a racial analysis of felon disenfranchisement laws / Keesha M. Middlemass

16. Felon voting rights and the disenfranchisement of African Americans / Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Angela Behrans

17. Jim Crow is alive and well in the twenty-first century : felony disenfranchisement and the continuing struggle to silence the African American voice / Ryan Scott King

V. First person : inside U.S. prisons. 18. "A true democracy" : talking with Eddie Ellis / Bianca Vázquez

19. manipulator under Manipulation shhh : muMs / Geoff K. Ward

20. The longest hour / Craig Davis

21. "From object to subject" : Jazz Hayden / Russell Rickford

22. Political riddles : bitten, seduced, and fooled / Alejo Dao'ud

23. A victim to passion / Robert Sanchez

24. What does ghetto mean? / Robert Sanchez

VI. Challenging the prison-industrial complex. 25. State of emergency / Angela Y. Davis

26. From punishment to rehabilitation : empowering African American youth / Monique Williams and Isis Sapp-Grant

27. Crime prevention in the African American community : lessons learned from the Nation of Islam / Shaun Gabbidon

28. New York Theological Seminary Prison program : Sing-Sing Correctional Facility our context

29. Wesley Robert Wells and the Civil Rights Congress campaign / Theodore Hamm

30. Prepared to govern justly / Van Jones

VII. Conclusion: The color of justice. Conclusion. The Carceral States of America / Keesha M. Middlemass

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9786613840660

9781283528214

1283528215

9780230607347

0230607349