Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader

by Marable, Manning; Middlemass, Keesha; Steinberg, Ian

• ISBN13: 9781403977663
• ISBN10: 1403977666
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT Critical Black Studies Series Editor: Manning MarableThe 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.

Author Biography

Manning Marable is Professor of History and Political Science and Director, Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University.

 

Keesha Middlemass is assistant professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.

 

Ian Steinberg is a graduate student at Columbia University

Table of Contents

introduction: incarcerating the american dream: the new racial domain, criminal justice, and the prison industrial complex

The Criminal Justice System and the New Racial Domain

Reconstructing Race and Crime: The Radical Tradition Revisited

The Condemnation of Little B

The Rockefeller Drug Laws

Racism and Capital Punishment

In Defense of Mumia

Living While Black

Women, Violence, and Incarceration

The Impact of the Prison Industrial Complex on African-American Women

Toward a Black Feminist Liberation Agenda: Race, Gender, and Violence

The Female Bogeyman: Political Implications of Criminalizing Black Women

A bad Relationship: Violence in the Lives of Incarcerated Black Women

Racism, Law, and Public Policy

Reassessing Race Specificity in American Law and Public Policy

Tell the Court I Love My [Indian] Wife: Interrogating Race and Self-Identity in Loving v. Virginia

Resistance, Redemption, and Transformation: African-American Prisoners Living with the HIV/AIDS Virus

First Person: Inside U.S. Prisons

A True Democracy: Talking with Eddie Ellis

From Object to Subject: Jazz Hayden

Political Prisoners and Black Radicalism

Political Riddles: Bitten, Seduced, and Fooled

A Victim to Passion

What Does the Ghetto Mean?

Manipulator under Manipulation Shh: Mums

Voting Rights and Disenfranchisement

Felon Voting Rights and the Disenfranchisement of African-Americans

Jim Crow Is Alive and Well in the 21st Century: Felony Disenfranchisement and the Silencing of the African-American Voice

The Policy of Disfranchisement

Challenging the Prison Industrial Complex

State of Emergency

From Punishment to Rehabilitation: Empowering African-American Youths

Crime Prevention in the African-American Community: Lessons from the Nation of Islam

Wesley Robert Wells and the Civil Rights Congress Campaign

Prepared to Govern Justly

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