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Título: The Carceral City
Condición: Nuevo
Subtítulos: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930
EAN: 9781469678184
ISBN: 9781469678184
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Formato: Tapa blanda
Fecha de publicación: 02/04/2024
Description: Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Slaveholders were deeply reliant on coercive state action. Authorities built massive slave prisons and devised specialized slave penal systems to maintain control and maximize profit. Indeed, in New Orleans—for most of the past half-century, the city with the highest incarceration rate in the United States—enslaved people were incarcerated at higher rates during the antebellum era than are Black residents today. Moreover, some slave prisons remained in use well after Emancipation: in these forgotten institutions lie the hidden origins of state violence under Jim Crow.

With powerful and evocative prose, Bardes boldly reinterprets relations between slavery and prison development in American history. Racialized policing and mass incarceration are among the gravest moral crises of our age, but these crises are not new: slavery, the prison, and race are deeply interwoven into the history of American governance.
Idioma: inglés
País/Región de fabricación: US
Altura del artículo: 235mm
Longitud del artículo: 155mm
Ancho del artículo: 25mm
Autor: John Bardes
Género: Society & Culture
Tema: Social Sciences, Home Garden & Pets, History
Peso: 272g
Año de publicación: 2024

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