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Racializing justice, disenfranchising lives : the racism, criminal justice, and law reader /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Colección: | Critical Black studies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives; CONTENTS; Introduction; Part I The Criminal Justice System and the New Racial Domain; Chapter 1 The Hypercriminalization of Black and Latino Male Youth in the Era of Mass Incarceration; Chapter 2 Reconstructing Race and Crime: The Radical Tradition Revisited; Chapter 3 The Condemnation of Little B; Chapter 4 The Rockefeller Drug Laws; Chapter 5 Racism and Capital Punishment; Chapter 6 "In Defense of Mumia": the Political Economy of Race, Class, Gender, and Social Death; Part II Women, Violence, and Incarceration
- Chapter 7 The Effect of the Prison-Industrial Complex on African American WomenChapter 8 Toward a Black Feminist Liberation Agenda: Race, Gender, and Violence; Chapter 9 The Female Bogeyman: Political Implications of Criminalizing Black Women; Chapter 10 A Bad Relationship: Violence in the Lives of Incarcerated Black Women; Part III Racism, Law, and Public Policy; Chapter 11 Reassessing Race Specificity in American Law and Public Policy; Chapter 12 "Tell the Court I Love My [Indian] Wife": Interrogating Race and Self-identity in Loving V. Virginia
- Chapter 13 Resistance, Redemption, and Transformation: African American and Latino Prisoners Living With the Hiv/aids VirusChapter 14 The Cactus that Must Not be Mistaken for a Pillow: White Racial Formation Among Latinos; Part IV Voting Rights and Disenfranchisement; Chapter 15 Unfit to Vote: A Racial Analysis of Felon Disenfranchisement Laws; Chapter 16 Felon Voting Rights and the Disenfranchisement of African Americans; Chapter 17 Jim Crow is Alive and Well in the Twenty-First Century: Felony Disenfranchisement and the Continuing Struggle to Silence the African American Voice
- Part V First Person: Inside U.S. PrisonsChapter 18 "A True Democracy": Talking with Eddie Ellis; Chapter 19 Manipulator Under Manipulation Shhh: Mums; Chapter 20 The Longest Hour; Chapter 21 "From Object to Subject": Jazz Hayden; Chapter 22 Political Riddles: Bitten, Seduced, and Fooled; Chapter 23 A Victim to Passion; Chapter 24 What Does the Ghetto Mean?; Part VI Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex; Chapter 25 State of Emergency; Chapter 26 From Punishment to Rehabilitation: Empowering African American Youth
- Chapter 27 Crime Prevention in the African American Community: Lessons Learned From the Nation of IslamChapter 28 New York Theological Seminary Prison Program: Sing-Sing Correctional Facility our Context; Chapter 29 Wesley Robert Wells and the Civil Rights Congress Campaign; Chapter 30 Prepared to Govern Justly; Part VII Conclusion: The Color of Justice; Conclusion The Carceral States of America; INDEX