Caging borders and carceral states : incarcerations, immigration detentions, and resistance / edited by Robert T. Chase.

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"This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways in which people have been caged and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, coercive legal powers, and national sovereignty....

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Uniform Title:Justice, power, and politics.
Other Authors: Chase, Robert T. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:Justice, power, and politics.
Subjects:
Imprisonment > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Imprisonment > West (U.S.) > History > 20th century.
Race discrimination > United States > States > History > 20th century.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
Detention of persons > United States > History > 20th century.
Southern States > Race relations > History.
West (U.S.) > Race relations > History.
Detention of persons.
Emigration and immigration.
Imprisonment.
Race relations.
Southern States.
United States.
West United States.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xi, 427 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Carceral shadows : entangled lineages and technologies of migrant detention / David Manuel Hernandez
  • The means and meanings of carceral mobility : U.S. deportation trains and the early twentieth-century deportation assemblage / Ethan Blue
  • Scorpion's tale : a borderlands history of Mexican imprisonment in the Sunbelt / Kelly Lytle Hernandez
  • Cultural resilience as resistance : the world of Mexican prisoners in Texas / George T. Diaz
  • They are all she had : formerly incarcerated women and the right to vote, 1890-1945 / Pippa Holloway
  • Menacing (re)production : the commodification and de-commodification of incarcerated black women's wombs and work / Talitha L. LeFlouria
  • Whatever happened to the Southern chain gang? Reinventing the road prison in Sunbelt Florida / Vivien Miller
  • Private prisons : where the Sunbelt casts its global shadow / Volker Janssen
  • Blood in, blood out : the emergence of California prison gangs in the 1960s / Heather McCarty
  • The path to Pelican Bay : the origins of the Supermax prison in the shadow of the law, 1982-1989 / Keramet Reiter
  • The Clintons' war on drugs : why black lives didn't matter / Donna Murch
  • From Dachau with love : George Jackson, black radical memory, and the transnational political vision of prison abolition / Dan Berger
  • The spider's web : mass incarceration and settler custodialism in Indian country / Douglas K. Miller.