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Title:
Color behind bars : racism in the U.S. prison system / Scott William Bowman, editor.
Author:
Bowman, Scott Wm, editor.
Publication Information:
Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, 2014-
Call Number:
HV9471 .C645 2014 V.1
Abstract:
"A diverse, critical analysis of racial and ethnic disparities within the American criminal justice system that encourages critical thinking by providing various sides to the issues"-- Provided by publisher.
Electronic Access:
ebrary http://site.ebrary.com/id/10937161
ISBN:
9780313399039
Series:
Racism in American institutions

Racism in American institutions.
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Volume 1. Historical and contemporary issues -- 1. How did we get here?: historical considerations of minority imprisonment / Scott Wm. Bowman -- 2. Jim Crow: a total institution: navigating a gateless prison system / Ruth Thompson-Miller and Joe Feagin -- 3. Hegemony and collective memories: Japanese-American relocation and imprisonment on American Indian "land" / Pedro Rodriguez and Pat Lauderdale -- 4. Residential segregation and the construction of an incarcerated underclass: historical considerations / Scott Wm. Bowman -- 5. The marginalization and criminalization of the black male image in postmodern America / Ronnie A. Dunn -- 6. Race/ethnicity, historical labor punishments, and the evolution of private prisons / Sarah Scott -- 7. Court-involved Latina girls: shackled, silenced, and invisible / Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko -- 8. Race, rape, and disparity: a historical perspective / Anne Li Kringen -- 9. The incarceration mentality of Eurocentrism: prisoner identification and jailing the imperfect body / Nikitah Imani -- 10. Historical perspectives on race and the war on drugs and prolonged effects of racially biased laws and policies / Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein -- 11. The juvenile justice system: an analysis of discretion and minority overrepresentation / Tony A. Barringer and Belinda E. Bruster -- 12. Asian Americans, deviance, crime, and the model minority myth / Tamara K. Nopper -- 13. We shall not forget this: Native Americans and colonial racism in American prisons / Carl Root and Michael J. Lynch -- 14. The mass incarceration of Latinos in the United States: looking ahead to the year 2050 / Roberto J. Velasquez and Susana M. Funes -- 15. Impact of mass incarceration on African-American women / Dorothy S. Ruiz.

Volume 2. Public policy and the U.S. prison system -- 16. What keeps us here?: policies and practices that shape minority overrepresentation / Scott Wm. Bowman -- 17. Ethno-racial factors in the U.S. prison system: forensic psychological realities of correctional officers / Ronn Johnson -- 18. Counseling, treatment, and culture in prison: one size fits all? / Leonard Steverson -- 19. Prison privatization: the political economy of race / Laurie A. Gould and Matthew Pate -- 20. The zero point of mass incarceration: mandatory minimums and the enfleshment of determinate sentencing / Nicholas Brady -- 21. Race and the three strikes law / Brian Chad Starks and Alana Van Gundy -- 22. How prisons became dystopias of color and poverty: prison abolition lessons from the war on drugs / Micheal J. Coyle -- 23. Return to the rez: Native American parolees' transitions to community life / Joseph S. Masters and Timothy P. Hilton -- 24. Race and the death penalty in America / Danielle Dirks and Emma Zack -- 25. Reentry, revocation, and recidivism for racial/ethnic minorities / Nkrumah Lewis -- 26. Racial/ethnic imprisonment and the larger community effects / Eileen M. Ahlin -- 27. Muslims, the war on terror, and prisons / Elyshia Aseltine -- 28. The ghosts of slavery: trying juveniles as adults / Christopher Bickel and Janette Diaz -- 29. Privilege and prison: a reconstruction of the race/crime paradigm / Scott Wm. Bowman.
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