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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Chase, Robert T., editor.
Title: Caging borders and carceral states : incarcerations, immigration detentions, and resistance / edited by Robert T. Chase.
Other titles: Justice, power, and politics.
Description: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] | Series: Justice, power, and politics | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018043534| ISBN 9781469651231 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469651248 (pbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469651255 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Imprisonment—Southern States—History—20th century. | Imprisonment—West (U.S.)—History—20th century. | Race discrimination—United States—States—History—20th century. | United States—Emigration and immigration—History—20th century. | Detention of persons—United States—History—20th century. | Southern States—Race relations—History. | West (U.S.)—Race relations—History.
Classification: LCC HV9466 .C34 2019 | DDC 365/.9730904—dc23
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Cover photo: Pakistani (left) and Mexican detainees inside federal detention facility, Baltimore, Md., 10 January 2002. © Steven Rubin.
Keramet Reiter’s “The Path to Pelican Bay: The Origins of the Supermax Prison in the Shadow of the Law, 1982–1989” was published in a substantially different form as “Constructing the Supermax: One Rule at a Time,” in 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016), 87–120.
Donna Murch’s “The Clinton’s War on Drugs: Why Black Lives Didn’t Matter” originally appeared in False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hilary Rodham Clinton, edited by Liza Featherstone (New York: Verso Books, 2016).
“The Scorpion’s Tale: A Borderlands History of Mexican Imprisonment in the Sunbelt” is an abbreviated and revised version of the “Scorpion’s Tale,” chapter four in Kelly Lytle Hernández, City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017), 92–130. Used here with permission.