Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader

Front Matter....Pages I-VII
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The Hypercriminalization of Black and Latino Male Youth in the Era of Mass Incarceration....Pages 17-33
Reconstructing Race and Crime: The Radical Tradition Revisited....Pages 35-42
The Condemnation of Little B....Pages 43-48
The Rockefeller Drug Laws....Pages 49-51
Racism and Capital Punishment....Pages 53-57
“In Defense of Mumia”: the Political Economy of Race, Class, Gender, and Social Death....Pages 59-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
The Effect of the Prison-Industrial Complex on African American Women....Pages 73-90
Toward a Black Feminist Liberation Agenda: Race, Gender, and Violence....Pages 91-99
The Female Bogeyman: Political Implications of Criminalizing Black Women....Pages 101-121
A Bad Relationship: Violence in the Lives of Incarcerated Black Women....Pages 123-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Reassessing Race Specificity in American Law and Public Policy....Pages 133-157
“Tell the Court I Love My [Indian] Wife”: Interrogating Race and Self-Identity in Loving V. Virginia....Pages 159-174
Resistance, Redemption, and Transformation: African American and Latino Prisoners Living With the HIV/AIDS Virus....Pages 175-196
The Cactus that Must Not be Mistaken for a Pillow: White Racial Formation Among Latinos....Pages 197-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Unfit to Vote: A Racial Analysis of Felon Disenfranchisement Laws....Pages 217-235
Felon Voting Rights and the Disenfranchisement of African Americans....Pages 237-245
Jim Crow is Alive and Well in the Twenty-First Century: Felony Disenfranchisement and the Continuing Struggle to Silence the African American Voice....Pages 247-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
“A True Democracy”: Talking with Eddie Ellis....Pages 267-279
Manipulator Under Manipulation SHHH: muMs....Pages 281-291
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
The Longest Hour....Pages 293-300
“From Object to Subject”: Jazz Hayden....Pages 301-311
Political Riddles: Bitten, Seduced, and Fooled....Pages 313-315
A Victim to Passion....Pages 317-317
What Does the Ghetto Mean?....Pages 319-320
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
State of Emergency....Pages 323-327
From Punishment to Rehabilitation: Empowering African American Youth....Pages 329-333
Crime Prevention in the African American Community: Lessons Learned From the Nation of Islam....Pages 335-346
New York Theological Seminary Prison Program: Sing-Sing Correctional Facility our Context....Pages 347-351
Wesley Robert Wells and the Civil Rights Congress Campaign....Pages 353-365
Prepared to Govern Justly....Pages 367-370
Front Matter....Pages 371-371
The Carceral States of America....Pages 373-380
Back Matter....Pages 381-387