Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance

Book Overview

This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways in which people have been caged and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, coercive legal powers, and national sovereignty. As these studies depict the institutional development and state scaffolding of overlapping carceral regimes, they also consider how prisoners and immigrants...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469651246
• ISBN13: 9781469651248
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"