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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814342503321

Autore

Marable M

Titolo

Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives : The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader / / by M. Marable, K. Middlemass, I. Steinberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007

ISBN

1-283-52821-5

9786613840660

0-230-60734-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Collana

Critical Black Studies

Disciplina

364.3/496073

Soggetti

Ethnicity

Social structure

Equality

Social justice

Human rights

African Americans

Ethnicity Studies

Social Structure, Social Inequality

Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights

African American Culture

United States Race relations

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction: Racializing justice, disenfranchising lives / Manning Marable -- ; I. The criminal justice system and the new racial domain. ; 1. The hypercriminalization of Black and Latino male youth in the era of mass incarceration / Victor M. Rios -- ; 2. Reconstructing race and crime : the radical tradition revisited / Tony Platt -- ; 3. The condemnation of Little B / Elaine Brown -- ; 4. The Rockefeller drug laws / Robert Gangi -- ; 5. Racism and capital punishment / George Kendall -- ; 6. "In defense of Mumia" : the political economy of race,



class, gender, and social death / Leonard Weinglass -- ; II. Women, violence, and incarceration. ; 7. The effect of the prison-industrial complex on African American women / Natalie J. Sokoloff -- ; 8. Toward a Black feminist liberation agenda : race, gender, and violence / Kristen Clarke -- ; 9. The female bogeyman : political implications of criminalizing Black women / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery -- ; 10. A bad relationship : violence in the lives of incarcerated Black women / Nikki Jones -- ; III. Racism, law, and public policy. ; 11. Reassessing race specificity in American law and public policy / Lorenzo Morris and Donn G. Davis -- ; 12. "Tell the court I love my [Indian] wife" : interrogating race and self-identity in Loving v. Virginia / Arica L. Coleman -- ; 13. Resistance, redemption, and transformation : African American and Latino prisoners living with the HIV/AIDS virus / Laura T. Fishman -- ; 14. The cactus that must not be mistaken for a pillow : white racial formation among Latinos / Daniel M. Rochmes and G.A. Elmer Griffin -- ; IV. Voting rights and disenfranchisement. ; 15. Unfit to vote : a racial analysis of felon disenfranchisement laws / Keesha M. Middlemass -- ; 16. Felon voting rights and the disenfranchisement of African Americans / Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Angela Behrans -- ; 17. Jim Crow is alive and well in the twenty-first century : felony disenfranchisement and the continuing struggle to silence the African American voice / Ryan Scott King -- ; V. First person : inside U.S. prisons. 18. "A true democracy" : talking with Eddie Ellis / Bianca Vázquez -- ; 19. manipulator under Manipulation shhh : muMs / Geoff K. Ward -- ; 20. The longest hour / Craig Davis -- ; 21. "From object to subject" : Jazz Hayden / Russell Rickford -- ; 22. Political riddles : bitten, seduced, and fooled / Alejo Dao'ud -- ; 23. A victim to passion / Robert Sanchez -- ; 24. What does ghetto mean? / Robert Sanchez -- ; VI. Challenging the prison-industrial complex. ; 25. State of emergency / Angela Y. Davis -- ; 26. From punishment to rehabilitation : empowering African American youth / Monique Williams and Isis Sapp-Grant -- ; 27. Crime prevention in the African American community : lessons learned from the Nation of Islam / Shaun Gabbidon -- ; 28. New York Theological Seminary Prison program : Sing-Sing Correctional Facility our context -- ; 29. Wesley Robert Wells and the Civil Rights Congress campaign / Theodore Hamm -- ; 30. Prepared to govern justly / Van Jones -- ; VII. ; Conclusion: The color of justice. ; Conclusion. The Carceral States of America / Keesha M. Middlemass

Sommario/riassunto

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.