
Prison and the Carceral State
Date Published: 11/7/2019
The scholarship in this reading list discusses life in a society governed by policing, surveillance, and imprisonment. Topics range from women of color abolitionist activism and the militarization of everyday life to intimacy, queerness, and parental rights in prison.
The introduction to each book is free, and books may be purchased at dukeupress.edu.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Challenging Convictions: Indigenous and Black Race-Radical Feminists Theorizing the Carceral State and Abolitionist Praxis in the United States and Canada
Lena Palacios
Meridians 15:1, 2016
JOURNAL ISSUE
Labor in the Correctional State
Leon Fink, editor
Labor 8:3, 2011
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fighting for Parental Rights in Prison
Jaqueline Smith
Genre 35:3–4, 2002
BOOK
Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State
Stephen Dillon
2018
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lessons in Being Gay: Queer Encounters in Gay and Lesbian Prison Activism
Regina Kunzel
Radical History Review 100, 2008
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dehumanizing Slave Personhood
Jeannine Marie DeLombard
American Literature 91:3, 2019
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Posing in Prison: Family Photographs, Emotional Labor, and Carceral Intimacy
Nicole R. Fleetwood
Public Culture 77, 2015
BOOK
Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy
Joy James, editor
2007
JOURNAL ARTICLE
From Slavery to Jane Crow to Say Her Name: An Intersectional Examination of Black Women and Punishment
Nishaun T. Battle
Meridians 15:1, 2016
JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Militarization and Madness of Everyday Life
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
South Atlantic Quarterly 113:3, 2014
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Quasi: Adjudicating Guilt, Innocence, and Citizenship in the Neoliberal Prison
Deena Varner
Cultural Politics 15:2, 2019
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Between the Market and the State: The Problem of Prison Labor in the New Deal
Matthew Pehl
Labor 16:2, 2019