Caging borders and carceral states : incarcerations, immigration detentions, and resistance / edited by Robert T. Chase.
"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 national soverei...
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Justice, power, and politics.
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| Summary: | "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 national sovereignty. As these studies depict the institutional development and state scaffolding of overlapping carceral regimes, they also consider how prisoners and immigrants resisted such oppression and violence by drawing on the transnational politics of human rights and liberation, transcending the isolation of incarceration and the boundaries of domestic law"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469651255 1469651254 9781469651262 1469651262 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 7, 2020) |