Free Downloads Incarcerating The Crisis: Freedom Struggles And The Rise Of The Neoliberal State (American Crossroads)
The United States currently has the largest prison population on the planet. Over the last four decades, structural unemployment, concentrated urban poverty, and mass homelessness have also become permanent features of the political economy. These developments are without historical precedent, but not without historical explanation. In this searing critique, Jordan T. Camp traces the rise of the neoliberal carceral state through a series of turning points in U.S. history including the Watts insurrection in 1965, the Detroit rebellion in 1967, the Attica uprising in 1971, the Los Angeles revolt in 1992, and events in post-Katrina New Orleans in 2005. Incarcerating the Crisis argues that these dramatic events coincided with the emergence of neoliberal capitalism and the state’s attempts to crush radical social movements. Through an examination of the poetic visions of social movements—including those by James Baldwin, Marvin Gaye, June Jordan, José Ramírez, and Sunni Patterson—it also suggests that alternative outcomes have been and continue to be possible.
Series: American Crossroads (Book 43)
Paperback: 268 pages
Publisher: University of California Press (April 18, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520281829
ISBN-13: 978-0520281820
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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Excellent book. Builds largely off of the insights of Policing the Crisis, and applies them deftly to the mass criminalization of poor people of color in the US. Well written, very readable, not overly esoteric, very persuasive. (Also a very nice, terse critique of Wacquant, who, perhaps, is referenced as an authority more than he should be w/r/t mass incarceration in the US.)
It let me know the insidious steps to become the most incarcerated nation in the world.
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