Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Carceral Networks: Rethinking Region and Connecting Carceral Borders

ROBERT T. CHASE

PART I From Western Conquests to Border Cages

Borderlands, Immigration, West

Carceral Shadows

Entangled Lineages and Technologies of Migrant Detention

DAVID MANUEL HERNÁNDEZ

The Means and Meanings of Carceral Mobility

U.S. Deportation Trains and the Early Twentieth-Century Deportation Assemblage

ETHAN BLUE

Scorpion’s Tale

A Borderlands History of Mexican Imprisonment in the Sunbelt

KELLY LYTLE HERNÁNDEZ

Cultural Resilience as Resistance

The World of Mexican Prisoners in Texas

GEORGE T. DÍAZ

PART II Prison Labor and Gender from South to Sunbelt

Menacing (Re)Production

The Commodification and De-Commodification of Incarcerated Black Women’s Wombs and Work

TALITHA L. LEFLOURIA

“They Are All She Had”

Formerly Incarcerated Women and the Right to Vote, 1890–1945

PIPPA HOLLOWAY

Whatever Happened to the Southern Chain Gang?

Reinventing the Road Prison in Sunbelt Florida

VIVIEN MILLER

PART III Constructing the Sunbelt Prison Industrial Complex

Blood In, Blood Out

The Emergence of California Prison Gangs in the 1960s

HEATHER MCCARTY

Private Prisons

Where the Sunbelt Casts Its Global Shadow

VOLKER JANSSEN

The Path to Pelican Bay

The Origins of the Supermax Prison in the Shadow of the Law, 1982–1989

KERAMET REITER

The Clintons’ War on Drugs

Why Black Lives Didn’t Matter

DONNA MURCH

PART IV Resistance

Confronting the Carceral State

“From Dachau with Love”

George Jackson, Black Radical Memory, and the Transnational Political Vision of Prison Abolition

DAN BERGER

The Spider’s Web

Mass Incarceration and Settler Custodialism in Indian Country

DOUGLAS K. MILLER

Contributor Biographies

Index