Capital and Convict : Race, Region, and Punishment in Post-Civil War America / Henry Kamerling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kamerling, Henry, 1967- author.

Series:

American South series.

The American South series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prison administration--South Carolina--History--19th century.

Prison administration.

Prison administration--Illinois--History--19th century.

African American prisoners--South Carolina--History--19th century.

African American prisoners.

African American prisoners--Illinois--History--19th century.

Punishment--South Carolina--History--19th century.

Punishment.

Punishment--Illinois--History--19th century.

United States--History--1865-1898.

United States.

United States--Race relations--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.

Summary:

The similarities in the lived experiences of inmates in both states suggest that the popular focus on the racial characteristics of southern punishment has shielded us from an examination of important underlying factors that prove just as central--if not more so--in shaping the realities of crime and punishment throughout the United States.

Contents:

Introduction

Politics

Politics and race in South Carolina's postwar penitentiary

Politics and ethnicity in Illinois's postwar penitentiaries

Politics and capitalism in the penitentiary

The ideology of rehabilitation in the postwar penitentiary

Assimilation versus exclusion in the ideology of late nineteenth-century punishment

Punishment and violence in the penitentiary

Resistance, assimilation, and convict culture in the penitentiary

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813940564

0813940567

OCLC:

1012400595