The punishment monopoly : tales of my ancestors, dispossession, and the building of the United States / Pem Davidson Buck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buck, Pem Davidson, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Punishment--United States--History.

Punishment.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States--History.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Monthly Review Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Why, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country proclaiming 'liberty and justice for all'? Using stories of her European ancestors, who arrived in colonial Virginia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and following their descendants into the early nineteenth century, Buck shows how struggles over the right to punish, backed by the growing power of the state governed by a white elite, made possible the dispossession of Africans, Native Americans, and poor whites"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Tales of a mythical ancestor, punishment, and diarchy

Ancestor tales of dispossession and a revolt of the unfree

Ancestor tales of slavery, slaving, and women with voice

Ancestor tales of the revolt that happened and one that didn't

Ancestor tales of the logic of a slave society

Ancestor tales of the birth of a slaving republic

Ancestor tales of the dispossession of women, the domination of men, and the definition of liberty

Ancestor tales of life in a capitalist slaving republic

Tales of the present.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-58367-835-2