We are not slaves : state violence, coerced labor, and prisoners' rights in postwar America /
"In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plantations. This system persisted until the 1940s when, led by Texas, southern states...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | Justice, power, and politics.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Abbreviations in the text
- Introduction
- Part I: A biography of coerced labor and state violence
- Fears of contagion, strategies of containment : pathologizing homosexuality, incarcerating bodies, and reshaping the southern prison farm
- A fine southern plantation : perfecting prison slave labor as the agribusiness model
- Enslaving prison bodies : labor division, prison rape, and the internal prison economy
- Part II: Resistance
- From Pachuco to writ writer : the carceral rehabilitation of Fred Cruz
- Eight hoe-sowing seeds of dissension : Chicanos and Muslims make a prison-made civil rights revolution
- Attica South : black political organizing against the prison plantation
- The Aztlán outlaw and black reform politics : the Carrasco hostage crisis and the collapse of political reform
- Testimonios of resistance : the slave narrative and the prison labor strike of 1978
- Stuck between justice and the carceral state : Ruiz v. Estelle and the politics of mass incarceration
- War on the prison insurgent : prison gangs, the militarized prison, and the persistence of carceral violence
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index of Cases.