1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465567103321

Autore

Dilts Andrew

Titolo

Punishment and inclusion : race, membership, and the limits of American liberalism / / Andrew Dilts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8232-6242-1

0-8232-6898-5

0-8232-6244-8

0-8232-6245-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Collana

Just Ideas

Disciplina

324.6/20869270973

Soggetti

Suffrage - United States

Prisoners - Suffrage - United States

Political rights, Loss of - United States

Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States

Punishment - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note About the Cover -- 1. A Productive Injustice -- 2. Fabricating Figures -- 3. Neoliberal Penality and the Biopolitics of Homo CEconomicus -- 4. To Kill a Thief -- 5. Innocent Citizens, Guilty Subjects -- 6. Punishing at the Ballot Box -- 7. Civic Disabilities -- 8. (Re)figuring Justice -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

At the start of the twenty-first century, 1 percent of the U.S. population is behind bars. An additional 3 percent is on parole or probation. In all but two states, incarcerated felons cannot vote, and in three states felon disenfranchisement is for life. More than 5 million adult Americans cannot vote because of a felony-class criminal conviction, meaning that more than 2 percent of otherwise eligible voters are stripped of their political rights. Nationally, fully a third of the



disenfranchised are African American, effectively disenfranchising 8 percent of all African Americans in the United States. In Alabama, Kentucky, and Florida, one in every five adult African Americans cannot vote. Punishment and Inclusion gives a theoretical and historical account of this pernicious practice of felon disenfranchisement, drawing widely on early modern political philosophy, continental and postcolonial political thought, critical race theory, feminist philosophy, disability theory, critical legal studies, and archival research into state constitutional conventions. It demonstrates that the history of felon disenfranchisement, rooted in post slavery restrictions on suffrage and the contemporaneous emergence of the modern “American” penal system, reveals the deep connections between two political institutions often thought to be separate, showing the work of membership done by the criminal punishment system and the work of punishment done by the electoral franchise. Felon disenfranchisement is a symptom of the tension that persists in democratic politics between membership and punishment. This book shows how this tension is managed via the persistence of white supremacy in contemporary regimes of punishment and governance.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783797103321

Autore

Kolber Leo

Titolo

Leo [[electronic resource] ] : a life / / Leo Kolber with L. Ian MacDonald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003

ISBN

1-283-52995-5

9786613842404

0-7735-7157-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MacDonaldL. Ian

Disciplina

328.71/092

Soggetti

Directors of corporations - Canada

Businessmen - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references: p. [285]-297.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Neither Rags, nor Riches -- “Mr Sam” -- Charles -- Edgar, Minda, and Phyllis -- Taking Toronto -- From Cemp to Cadillac Fairview -- Family -- Travels with Trudeau -- Prime Ministers, Premiers, and Pols -- The Bagman -- Hooray for Hollywood -- Authors and Artists -- Anti-Semitism and the Jewish Mosaic -- Israeli Friends and Friends of Israel -- Management and Leadership in Business -- The Senate Banking Committee -- Afterword -- Co-author’s Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

For thirty years Kolber was chairman of Cemp Investments, the Bronfman trust, and Cadillac Fairview Corporation, one of the largest real estate firms in North America. He charts his directorship of Dupont and other companies in which the Bronfmans held an important interest and reveals the inner workings of mega deals, including the Bronfman acquisition of MGM in the 1960s. The memoir also offers a sobering look at Edgar Bronfman Jr's disasterous decision to sell Seagram's 25 percent interest in DuPont in order to buy MCA-Universal Studios, a deal that Kolber strongly opposed and which signalled the dissolution of a great business empire.