The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world; 70 percent of the nearly two million incarcerated in prisons and immigration detention centers are people of color. States of Confinement uncovers the political, social, and economic biases in policing and punishment. The distinguished contributors— Angela Y. Davis, Manning Marable, Gary Marx, Robert Meeropol, Julie Su, and Judi Bari—discuss abuses of police powers in American society. They expose racial profiling and sentencing disparities that target African Americans and Latinos, the sexual exploitation of women, racist and homophobic violence, the policing of Asian Americans and Arabs, the conditions of HIV-positive prisoners, the use of the Grand Jury and police to undermine political activity, and environmental activism.
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“This challenge to conventional wisdom about the criminal justice system is needed.” —Booklist
“This book is an enormously useful treasury of information, joining powerful personal stories with bold, thoughtful analysis.” —Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States
“This book is an enormously useful treasury of information, joining powerful personal stories with bold, thoughtful analysis.” —Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States
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Joy James is Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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As far as I know my brother, Michael, and I are the only people to have both their parents executed by the government of the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
antiblack vigilantism, massage parlor prostitution, childhood offenses, suspect rate, secret evidence, black victimization, racialized communities, antiblack violence, incarcerated women, military prostitution, prison industrial complex, female gang members, new segregation, new surveillance, imprisoned women, white prisoners, convict leasing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, African American, Supreme Court, Southeast Asian, Los Angeles, Black Panther Party, Arab Americans, Native American, Puerto Rican, Richard Laird, Leonard Peltier, Fifth Amendment, Frank Chester, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Third World, Civil War, First Amendment, Judge Sabo, Anthony Milano, Marilyn Buck, Inventing the Savage, Michel Foucault, Middle East, Washington Post New!
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As far as I know my brother, Michael, and I are the only people to have both their parents executed by the government of the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
antiblack vigilantism, massage parlor prostitution, childhood offenses, suspect rate, secret evidence, black victimization, racialized communities, antiblack violence, incarcerated women, military prostitution, prison industrial complex, female gang members, new segregation, new surveillance, imprisoned women, white prisoners, convict leasing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, African American, Supreme Court, Southeast Asian, Los Angeles, Black Panther Party, Arab Americans, Native American, Puerto Rican, Richard Laird, Leonard Peltier, Fifth Amendment, Frank Chester, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Third World, Civil War, First Amendment, Judge Sabo, Anthony Milano, Marilyn Buck, Inventing the Savage, Michel Foucault, Middle East, Washington Post New!
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- Criminal Justice by Andrew Sanders on 6 pages
- Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-jamal on 4 pages
- Black Police in America (Blacks in the Diaspora) by W. Marvin Dulaney on page 196, page 204, and Back Matter
- Smoke and Mirrors: How Science Reflects Reality (Philosophical Issues in Science) by James Robert Brown in Front Matter, page 311, and Back Matter
- Racial Subjects: Writing on Race in America by David Theo Goldberg on page 221, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The New Abolitionists: (Neo)slave Narratives And Contemporary Prison Writings (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race) by Joy James on page 225, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang by David C. Brotherton in Back Matter
- Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools by Kenneth J. Saltman on page 124
- Der Club der Gaunerinnen. by Olivia Goldsmith in Back Matter
- The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy (Critical America) by David Pellow in Back Matter
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