Caging Borders and Carceral States - (Justice, Power, and Politics) by Robert T Chase (Paperback)

About the Book

"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 resisted such oppression and violence by drawing on the transnational politics of human rights and liberation, transcending the isolation of incarceration and the boundaries of domestic law"--

Book Synopsis

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 citizens and migrants alike have been caged, detained, deported, and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, converging and 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 resisted such oppression and violence by drawing on the transnational politics of human rights and liberation, transcending the isolation of incarceration, detention, deportation and the boundaries of domestic law.


Contributors: Dan Berger, Ethan Blue, George T. Díaz, David Hernandez, Kelly Lytle Hernández, Pippa Holloway, Volker Janssen, Talitha L. LeFlouria, Heather McCarty, Douglas K. Miller, Vivien Miller, Donna Murch, and Keramet Ann Reiter.

Review Quotes

"A challenging and intelligent anthology. In this moment of widespread debate over re- forming the criminal justice and immigration systems, this work is sorely needed."--Southwestern Historical Quarterly

"An incredibly rich resource for anyone interested in the history of policing, confinement, and resistance. . . . Chase has intricately woven innovative research from top scholars in the field of carcerality. . . . This collection of articles is a phenomenal contribution to the field of the carceral state."--Journal of American Ethnic History

"This collection of essays masterfully organizes important contributions to the scholarship on the carceral state. . . . Authors expand each other's arguments, creating well-connected theses analyzing the foundations and interconnections of carceral networks in the United States. . . . Readers interested in the intersections between racism, incarceration, immigration detention and deportation, and settler-colonial violence will find what they are looking for within this well-crafted anthology."--International Criminal Justice Review

About the Author

Rob Chase is assistant professor of history at Stony Brook University.