Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives [Elektronisk resurs] The Racism, Criminal Justice and Law Reader / Edited by Manning Marable, Keesha Middlemass, Ian Steinberg.

• Introduction: Incarcerating the American Dream: The New Racial Domain, Criminal Justice, and the Prison Industrial Complex - Manning Marable * PART I: THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND THE NEW RACIAL DOMAIN * Reconstructing Race and Crime: The Radical Tradition Revisited - Tony Platt * The Condemnation of Little B - Elaine Brown * The Rockefeller Drug Laws - Robert Gangi * Racism and Capital Punishment - George Kendall * In Defense of Mumia - Leonard Weinglass * Living While Black - Charles Ogletree * PART II: WOMEN, VIOLENCE, AND INCARCERATION * The Impact of the Prison Industrial Complex on African-American Women - Natalie J. Sokoloff * Toward a Black Feminist Liberation Agenda: Race, Gender, and Violence - Kristen Clarke * The Female Bogeyman: Political Implications of Criminalizing Black Women - Julia Jordan-Zachary * A Bad Relationship: Violence in the Lives of Incarcerated Black Women - Nikki Jones * PART III: RACISM, LAW, AND PUBLIC POLICY * Reassessing Race Specificity in American Law and Public Policy - Lorenzo Morris * "Tell the Court I Love My [Indian] Wife": Interrogating Race and Self-Identity in Loving v. Virginia - Arica L. Coleman * Resistance, Redemption, and Transformation: African-American Prisoners Living with the HIV/AIDS Virus - Laura T. Fishman * PART IV: FIRST PERSON: INSIDE U.S. PRISONS * "A True Democracy": Talking with Eddie Ellis - Blanca Vazquez * From Object to Subject: Jazz Hayden - Russell Rickford * Political Prisoners and Black Radicalism - Safiya Bukharl * Political Riddles: Bitten, Seduced, and Fooled - Alejo Dao'ud * A Victim to Passion - Robert Sanchez * What Does the Ghetto Mean? - Robert Sanchez * Manipulator under Manipulation Shh: Mums - Geoff Ward * PART V: VOTING RIGHTS AND DISENFRANCHISEMENT * Felon Voting Rights and the Disenfranchisement of African-Americans - Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza & Angela Behrans * Jim Crow Is Alive and Well in the 21st Century: Felony Disenfranchisement and the Silencing of the African-American Voice - Ryan Scott King * The Policy of Disfranchisement - Keesha Middlemass * PART VI: CHALLENGING THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX * State of Emergency - Angela Y. Davis * From Punishment to Rehabilitation: Empowering African-American Youths - Monique Williams & Isis Sapp-Grant * Crime Prevention in the African-American Community: Lessons from the Nation of Islam - Shaun L. Gabiddon * Wesley Robert Wells and the Civil Rights Congress Campaign - Theodore Hamm * Prepared to Govern Justly - Van Jones.

• 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. -- African Americans today face a systemic crisis of mass underemployment, mass imprisonment, and mass disenfranchisement. This comprehensive reader makes clear to students the mutual constitution of these three crises. NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT Critical Black Studies Series Editor: Manning Marable The Critical Black Studies Series features readers and anthologies examining challenging topics within the contemporary black experience - in the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, and across the African Diaspora. Under the general editorial supervision of Manning Marable, the readers in the series are designed both for college and university course adoption, as well as for general readers and researchers. The Critical Black Studies Series seeks to provoke intellectual debate and exchange over the most critical issues confronting the political, socioeconomic and cultural reality of black life in the United States and beyond. This volume looks at the crisis of mass underemployment, mass imprisonment, and mass disfranchisement that African Americans face today. This comprehensive reader makes clear to students the mutual constitution of these three crises. 

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