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

• Autore: Marable M
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2007.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.3/496073
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
• Persona (resp. second.): MiddlemassK; SteinbergI
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives
• ISBN: 1-283-52821-5; 9786613840660; 0-230-60734-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781093703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical Black Studies