From the Book - 1st Palgrave Macmillan pbk. ed.
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