Screen LibraryRacializing 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.
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Critical black studies |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230607347 |
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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. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2007. |
| Carrier Form: | 400 p. |
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9781403977663 9780230607347 : 0230607349 : |
| CLC: | C91 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Incarcerating the American Dream: The New Racial Domain, Criminal Justice, and the Prison Industrial Complex - Manning Marable * PART I: THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND THE NEW RACIAL DOMAIN * Reconstructing Race and Crime: The Radical Tradition Revisited - Tony Platt * The Condemnation of Little B - Elaine Brown * The Rockefeller Drug Laws - Robert Gangi * Racism and Capital Punishment - George Kendall * In Defense of Mumia - Leonard Weinglass * Living While Black - Charles Ogletree * PART II: WOMEN, VIOLENCE, AND INCARCERATION * The Impact of the Prison Industrial Complex on African-American Women - Natalie J. Sokoloff * Toward a Black Feminist Liberation Agenda: Race, Gender, and Violence - Kristen Clarke * The Female Bogeyman: Political Implications of Criminalizing Black Women - Julia Jordan-Zachary * A Bad Relationship: Violence in the Lives of Incarcerated Black Women - Nikki Jones * PART III: RACISM, LAW, AND PUBLIC POLICY * Reassessing Race Specificity in American Law and Public Policy - Lorenzo Morris * "Tell the Court I Love My [Indian] Wife": Interrogating Race and Self-Identity in Loving v. Virginia - Arica L. Coleman * Resistance, Redemption, and Transformation: African-American Prisoners Living with the HIV/AIDS Virus - Laura T. Fishman * PART IV: FIRST PERSON: INSIDE U.S. PRISONS * "A True Democracy": Talking with Eddie Ellis - Blanca Vazquez * From Object to Subject: Jazz Hayden - Russell Rickford * Political Prisoners and Black Radicalism - Safiya Bukharl * Political Riddles: Bitten, Seduced, and Fooled - Alejo Dao'ud * A Victim to Passion - Robert Sanchez * What Does the Ghetto Mean? - Robert Sanchez * Manipulator under Manipulation Shh: Mums - Geoff Ward * PART V: VOTING RIGHTS AND DISENFRANCHISEMENT * Felon Voting Rights and the Disenfranchisement of African-Americans - Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza & Angela Behrans * Jim Crow Is Alive and Well in the 21st Century: Felony Disenfranchisement and the Silencing of the African-American Voice - Ryan Scott King * The Policy of Disfranchisement - Keesha Middlemass * PART VI: CHALLENGING THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX * State of Emergency - Angela Y. Davis * From Punishment to Rehabilitation: Empowering African-American Youths - Monique Williams & Isis Sapp-Grant * Crime Prevention in the African-American Community: Lessons from the Nation of Islam - Shaun L. Gabiddon * Wesley Robert Wells and the Civil Rights Congress Campaign - Theodore Hamm * Prepared to Govern Justly - Van Jones. |