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This book addresses the complex issue of incarceration of Latino/as and offers a comprehensive overview of such topics as deportations in historical context, a case study of latino/a resistance to prisons in the 70s, the issues of youth and and girls prisons, and the post incarceration experience.
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Art of Resistance
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Front Matter
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Reviews
"With this anthology, Oboler and her collaborators have taken a vicious swing at cracking the walls of silence, indifference, and distortion that surround the largest system of criminal injustice in the world. Simply put, with its wide array of individual case studies, and legal, social, and philosophical interventions on civil and human rights discourses, Behind Bars is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary work to date on the sordid reality of the carceral state s pervasive impact on U.S. Latinos. This a must-read for anyone who wants to gain a better understanding not only of how the prison industrial complex intersects with social control, nationhood, immigration policies, and international law and impacts the individual lives of those behind bars, but also of what the very existence of these policies and practices say about us in the so-called free world." - Louis Mendoza, Associate Professor of Chicano Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
About the authors
SUZANNE OBOLER is Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA and is Editor of Latino Studies, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Behind Bars
Book Subtitle: Latino/as and Prison in the United States
Editors: Suzanne Oboler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101470
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Suzanne Oboler 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-61924-1Published: 30 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-61949-4Published: 30 December 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10147-0Published: 23 November 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 300
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethnicity Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Latin American Culture, Prison and Punishment, Social Structure, Social Inequality