Mass Incarceration

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  11/17/2020
  

  Online Book Talk with Author Garrett Felber on The Nation of Islam and Mass Incercaration (11/20)

  Garrett Felber's book takes a new look at the Nation of Islam and reveals a multifaceted freedom struggle that focused as much on policing and prisons as on school desegregation and voting rights.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  11/17/2020
  

  I Don't Have to Forgive Joe Biden

  by Christopher Lebron

  "I choose to believe he is ready to be transformed by the times, his peers, and the mandate given to him in defeating good ol’ white supremacy. I can accept Biden for the purpose of dealing with him for the moment."

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• SOURCE: Places Journal
  10/15/2020
  

  “Nothing Stirred in the Air”

  by Stephen Dillon

  The architecture of the "supermax" prison targets the senses and emotions of the incarcerated as a means of control in the wake of political organizing inside and outside of prisons in the 1960s and 1970s. 

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• SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
  9/28/2020
  

  How Mass Incarceration Has Shaped History

  Political forces pushing for mass incarceration have been closely connected to those restricting the power of labor and pressing to keep wages low. 

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• SOURCE: The Marshall Project
  7/29/2020
  

  Will The Reckoning Over Racist Names Include These Prisons?

  Historians including Robert Perkinson and Monica Muñoz Martinez discuss the impact of having today's cruelly punitive prisons named for racist figures of the Jim Crow era.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  6/2/2020
  

  How Today’s Protests Compare to 1968, Explained by a Historian

  The Pulitzer Prize winning historian and President of the Urban History Association: "If there’s nothing else I’d love for your readership to think of, it’s this: If you have 75+ cities burning, what does it say that from the leadership at every level, the only response has been more police?"

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  5/29/2020
  

  The Minneapolis Uprising in Context

  by Elizabeth Hinton

  It's necessary to understand anti-police rebellion as a form of political protest among people without the resources to express discontent in more socially accepted ways. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  4/16/2020
  

  “Prisons Are Microcosms of the Broader Society”: An Interview with Heather Ann Thompson

  "The COVID-19 outbreak is essentially a reaping of what we’ve sown with mass incarceration, from a public health perspective."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/16/2020
  

  An Epicenter of the Pandemic Will Be Jails and Prisons, if Inaction Continues

  by Amanda Klonsky

  How will we prevent incarcerated people and those who work in these institutions from becoming ill and spreading the virus?

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• 1/26/20
  

  “Who’s Responsible For What’s Happening at Parchman?": A Historical Analysis of Mississippi’s Prisons

  by Michael Murphy

  These recent deaths at Parchman have a long historical tradition in Mississippi state-run institutions and are linked to underfunding and lack of support by the state government.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/17/20
  

  The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration’

  by Michelle Alexander

  From mass incarceration to mass deportation, our nation remains in deep denial.

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• SOURCE: LA Review of Books
  12/13/19
  

  A New Kind of Bondage

  by Jason S. Sexton

  TONY PLATT’S Beyond These Walls provides a relentless critique of the United States’s carceral regime, prompting us to rethink how criminal justice institutions operate.

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• 11/24/19
  

  The History of Black Incarceration Is Longer Than You May Think

  by Jeff Forret

  The incarceration of African Americans did not begin suddenly with the end of the Civil War. Confinement functioned as a punishment during bondage as well.

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• SOURCE: Michigan News
  10/18/19
  

  Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Heather Ann Thompson sees Detroit as central for carceral reform

  We’re poised for positive change with incredible energy to make our criminal justice system more just, and nowhere are we seeing that more than in Detroit. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/4/19
  

  Conversations in Black Freedom Studies Interviews LaShawn Harris and Max Felker-Kantor

  by AAIHS Editors

  Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration, and the Liberal Establishment

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/3/19
  

  Police and punitive policies make schools less safe, especially for minority students

  by Kathryn Schumaker

  The increase in school security is directly linked to the rise of student activism that started to transform schools 50 years ago.

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• 8/20/19
  

  Jeff Sessions's Troubling Legacy

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Unfortunately, Sessions’ ideas and policies live on through Trump adviser Stephen Miller.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Magazine
  Accessed 8/20/19
  

  Historian Elizabeth Hinton Profiled in Harvard Magazine: Color and Incarceration

  Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.

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• 7/21/19
  

  The History of the American System of Interrogation

  by Donald E. McInnis

  Were the Central Park Five confessions a freak accident? No: every day, adults and juveniles falsely confess to serious crimes they did not commit. Why? 

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• 3/31/19
  

  E-Carceration: Are Digital Prisons The Future?

  by Christopher Twarowski

  Digital “shackles” have been utilized by the U.S. criminal justice system for more than 30 years but their use has increased a whopping 140 percent throughout the past decade.