Inhaltliche Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Carceral Narratives and Fictions -- Poems: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Pantoum for a Black Man on a Greyhound Bus" and "Lost Letter #27: John Peters, Boston-Gaol to Phillis Wheatley Peters, Boston, December 3, 1784" -- 1. Carceral Trauma at the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Maternity -- 2. Layered Realities: Prison Writings and Anti-Terror Laws in India -- 3. Seeing Orange: Mediatizing the Prison Empire -- 4. Emptied Chairs and Faceless Inmates: A Critical Analysis of the Texas Prison Museum -- Poems: Ravi Shankar, "Against Innocence" and "Sunday School" -- 5. These Stories Will Not Be Confined -- Poem: Solmaz Sharif, "Reaching Guantánamo" -- Part Two: Carceral Bodies and Systems -- Poem: Jeremy Eugene, "Space" -- 6. Cornered: Day Laborers, Criminalization, and Legal Rituals of Democracy in Texas -- 7. Resisting Criminalization: Principles, Practicalities, and Possibilities of Alternative Justices beyond the State -- 8. Going Carceral: Analyzing Written and Visual Representations of Prison Yoga Programs -- 9. Vacant Refuge, Unfinished Resettlement: Ambivalence among Syrian and Iraqi Refugee Women and Children in Houston, Texas -- 10. Social Control, Punishment, and Gender: Silenced Memories of Peruvian Women in Wartime -- 11. Bad Girls of Pinjra Tod -- Poem: Javier Zamora, "Citizenship" -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
"Carceral liberalism emerges from the confluence of neoliberalism, carcerality, and patriarchy to construct a powerful ruse disguised as freedom. It waves the feminist flag while keeping most women still at the margins. It speaks of a post-race society while one in three Black men remain incarcerated. It sings the praises of capital while the dispossessed remain mired in debt. Shreerekha Pillai edits essays on carceral liberalism that continue the trajectory of the Combahee River Collective and the many people inspired by its vision of feminist solidarity and radical liberation. Academics, activists, writers, poets, and a formerly incarcerated social worker look at feminist resurgence and resistance within, at the threshold of, and outside state violence; observe and record direct and indirect forms of carcerality sponsored by the state and shaped by state structures, traditions, and actors; and critique carcerality. Cutting-edge yet historically grounded, Carceral Liberalism examines an American ideological creation that advances imperialism, anti-blackness, capitalism, and patriarchy"-- |
