We are not slaves : state violence, coerced labor, and prisoners' rights in postwar America / Robert T. Chase.
Publisher's description: In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plantations. This system persisted until the 1940s when, led by...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Justice, power, and politics.
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Table of Contents:
- Fears of contagion, strategies of containment : pathologizing homosexuality, incarcerating bodies, and reshaping the southern prison farm
- A fine southern plantation : perfecting prison slave labor as the agribusiness model
- Enslaving prison bodies : labor division, prison rape, and the internal prison economy
- From Pachuco to writ writer : the carceral rehabilitation of Fred Cruz
- Eight hoe-sowing seeds of dissension : Chicanos and Muslims make a prison-made civil rights revolution
- Attica South : black political organizing against the prison plantation
- The Aztlan outlaw and urban black reform politics : the Carasco hostage crisis and the collapse of political reform
- Testimonios of resistance : the slave narrative and the prison labor strike of 1978
- Stuck between justice and the carceral state : Ruiz v. Estelle and the politics of mass incarceration
- War on the prison insurgent : prison gangs, the militarized prison, and the persistence of carceral violence.