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The United States has more than two million people locked away in federal, state, and local prisons.
Although most of the U. In this compelling collection, scholars, activists, and current and former prisoners examine the sensibilities that enable a penal democracy to thrive.
Some pieces are new to this volume; others are classic critiques of U. Through biography, diary entries, and criticism, the contributors collectively assert that the United States wages war against enemies abroad and against its own people at home.
Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy. Warfare in the American Homelandalso includes the first English translation of an excerpt from a pamphlet by Michel Foucault and others. Congratulations to Duke University Press for publishing this excellent collection on the growing prison industrial complex of the United States, which is also being exported worldwide. Explore the Home Gift Guide. They argue that the shooting of George Jackson by prison guards was a murder premeditated in response to human-rights and justice organizing by black and brown prisoners and their supporters. Wilderson's opening essay argues that the prison abolition movement is profoundly implicated in anti-blackness. English View all editions and formats Summary:
Contributors consider the interning or policing of citizens of color, the activism of radicals, structural racism, destruction and death in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, and the FBI Counterintelligence Program designed to quash domestic dissent. Warfare in the American Homeland also includes the first English translation of an excerpt from a pamphlet by Michel Foucault and others.
They argue that the shooting of George Jackson by prison guards was a murder premeditated in response to human-rights and justice organizing by black and brown prisoners and their supporters. Joy James is John B.
She is the author of Shadowboxing: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U. Culture and the editor of The New Abolitionists: Sign up for Subject Matters email updates to receive discounts, new book announcements, and more.
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Pinar makes essential connections between the sexualized racial violence aimed at black bodies in the United States and the sadism inflicted on people captive in U.
His essay positions the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib within three "cultures of torture" in American history: Pinar makes clear that the image of the United States revealed by the photographs—categorically denied as being representative by American officials—is neither a new nor an inaccurate one. Jared Sexton similarly locates the sources for recent anti-democratic policies not in the passage of the Patriot Act or in the latest Executive Order, but in the "antebellum slave code and its antecedents, in colonial statute" Black Americans, Sexton reminds, have always been subject to unlawful arrest and seizure as well as systematic disenfranchisement.
Sexton recounts the bipartisan and judicial contempt for black citizenship that inaugurated the twenty-first century and the presidency of George W.
In the name of "reconciliation" and the "democratic process," the Senate ignored the formal objection of the Congressional Black Caucus to Florida's compromised electoral vote and thus countenanced the disenfranchisement of tens of thousands of black voters. The movement, in Sexton's words, from " 'war on crime' to 'war on drugs If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution that supports Shibboleth authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE, click 'Authenticate'. View freely available titles: Book titles OR Journal titles.