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Incarcerating the crisis : freedom struggles and the rise of the neoliberal state

Title
Incarcerating the crisis : freedom struggles and the rise of the neoliberal state / Jordan T. Camp.
Author
Camp, Jordan T., 1979-
Publication
  • Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Description
xiv, 263 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"The United States currently has the highest incarceration rate of any country: one in thirty-five adults are in jail, prison, immigrant detention, or on parole or probation. 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 roots of this explosive carceral crisis 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 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 poetic visions of social movements--including those by James Baldwin, Marvin Gaye, June Jordan, Jose Ramirez, and Sunni Patterson--it also suggests that alternative outcomes have been and continue to be possible."--Provided by publisher.
Series Statement
The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies
Uniform Title
George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.
Subject
  • Protest movements > United States > History
  • Race riots > United States > History
  • African Americans > Social conditions
  • Neoliberalism > Social aspects > History. > United States
  • Social problems in mass media
  • Race relations in mass media
  • United States > Race relations > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: an old world is dying -- The explosion in Watts: The second reconstruction and the cold war roots of the carceral state -- Finally got the news: The black freedom struggle and the crisis of U.S. hegemony in Detroit -- The sound before the fury: Attica, racialized state violence, and the neoliberal turn in New York -- Reading the writing on the wall: The Los Angeles uprising and the Carceral City -- What's going on? Moral panics and militarization in post-Katrina New Orleans -- Shut 'em down: Social movements confront mass homelesness and militarized policing in Los Angeles -- Epilogue: poetry of the future.
Call Number
Sc E 16-1924
ISBN
  • 9780520281813
  • 0520281810
  • 9780520281820
  • 0520281829
  • 9780520957688 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0520957687 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015037551
OCLC
926061372
Author
Camp, Jordan T., 1979- author.
Title
Incarcerating the crisis : freedom struggles and the rise of the neoliberal state / Jordan T. Camp.
Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies
George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 16-1924
IM 16-3726
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