Rethinking the American prison movement

✍ Scribed by Dan Berger, Toussaint Losier

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 215
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America’s prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of the nineteenth century to the rebellious protests of the 1960s and 1970s to the rise of mass incarceration and its discontents, Rethinking the American Prison Movement is invaluable to anyone interested in the history of American prisons and the struggles for justice still echoing in the present day.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Roots: Challenging Prison Slavery and Political Repression, 1865–1940
2 Rights: Fighting Prison Jim Crow, 1940–1968
3 Revolution: The Prison Rebellion Years, 1968–1972
4 Radicalism: Unions, Feminism, and the Crisis of Prison Managerialism, 1972–1980
5 Retrenchment: Mass Incarceration and the Remaking of the Prison Movement, 1980–1998
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

✦ Subjects

Prison abolition,American history,African American studies

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