Contents
Carceral Networks: Rethinking Region and Connecting Carceral Borders
ROBERT T. CHASE
PART I From Western Conquests to Border Cages
Borderlands, Immigration, West
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
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
The Commodification and De-Commodification of Incarcerated Black Women’s Wombs and Work
TALITHA L. LEFLOURIA
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
The Emergence of California Prison Gangs in the 1960s
HEATHER MCCARTY
Where the Sunbelt Casts Its Global Shadow
VOLKER JANSSEN
The Origins of the Supermax Prison in the Shadow of the Law, 1982–1989
KERAMET REITER
DONNA MURCH
Confronting the Carceral State
George Jackson, Black Radical Memory, and the Transnational Political Vision of Prison Abolition
DAN BERGER
Mass Incarceration and Settler Custodialism in Indian Country
DOUGLAS K. MILLER