The prison of democracy : race, Leavenworth, and the culture of law /

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"The Prison of Democracy uses a prison designed as a replica of the US capitol building as a prism for understanding the relationship between prisons and democracy. As an historical and archival study of the federal prison system, this book examines the history of the racial carceral state and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Benson, Sara M., 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Subjects:
United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas > History.
United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas
Prisons > United States > History.
Prisons > États-Unis > Histoire.
History.
Crime & criminology.
Political science & theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
Prisons
United States
1890s.
america.
bleeding kansas.
democracy.
design of punishment.
federal penitentiary.
freedom.
history.
indian territory.
law.
leavenworth.
mass incarceration.
monuments to democracy.
nation building system.
peculiar architecture.
political significance.
post war racial history.
prison.
race.
slavery.
state inflicted violence.
us capitol building.
us history.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the idea of Leavenworth and the prison of democracy
  • The architecture of liberalism and the origins of carceral democracy
  • The legal time of Bleeding Kansas : punishment and slavery in the borderlands
  • Territorial politics and the punitive legacies of Indian Territory
  • Prisons at the border : the political geography of the Mason-Dixon line
  • Leavenworth's political prisoners : race, resistance, and the prison's archive
  • Postscript : "walls turned sideways are bridges" : abolition dreams and the prison's aftermath.

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