This title argues that the prison systems of California and Texas during the Depression set the tone for the identity roles of the 30s. The book tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons.
As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing …
Caging borders and carceral states: incarcerations, immigration detentions, and resis…
by Reiter, Keramet, Berger, Dan, Blue, Ethan, Hernandez, David, Hernandez, Kelly Lytle, Diaz, George T., LeFlouria, Talitha L., Holloway, Pippa, Miller, Vivien M. L., McCarty, Heather, Janssen, Volker, (Historian), Murch, Donna Jean, Miller, Douglas K.
fromJustice, power, and politics
"This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways in which people have been caged and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, coercive legal powers, and …