“Passim” (literally “scattered”) indicates intermittent discussion of a topic over a cluster of pages.
abolitionism. See anti-slavery movement; prison abolition
aboriginal Australians, 25
Abu-Jamal, Mumia, 27, 30, 94, 113
Acoli, Sundiata, 93
Addameer, 55
Africa, 53. See also Angola; South Africa
African National Congress (ANC), 9, 52, 53, 54, 79
Alexander, Jacqui, 135
Alexander, Michelle, 122; The New Jim Crow, 13, 20, 107
All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave, 87
Alternative Masculinities, 28
American exceptionalism. See US exceptionalism
American Studies Association, 9, 44, 45
Angola Three (political prisoners), 73–74, 93
antiapartheid movement, 8, 9, 10, 43–44, 51–54 passim
anti-Muslim racism, 5, 39, 48, 65, 79, 90, 126
anti-slavery movement, 25–26, 36, 73, 75
apartheid (South Africa), 8–10 passim, 17, 20, 40, 43–44, 51–54 passim, 78–79
apartheid wall (Israeli West Bank barrier), 5, 55–59 passim, 108
armed struggle, 9
Armenian genocide, 129, 133–34
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation (Richie), 100
Asian American Studies Association, 45
Attica Prison Rebellion, 1971, 23, 98
Baker, Ella, 86
Baldwin, James, 130
Baltimore, 84
Barghouti, Marwan, 10
BDS movement. See boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement
Bell, Herman, 93
Beloved (Morrison), 134
Ben-Moshe, Liat, 97
Birmingham, Alabama, 37, 62, 63, 74–75, 114, 119
bisexuals. See LGBTQ people
Black feminism, 3–4, 41, 46, 89
Black freedom movement. See civil rights movement
Black labor, general strike of, 70
Black Liberation Army, 78
“black-on-black crime,” 89
Black Panther Party (BPP), 2, 7, 8, 72–74, 79, 113–14, 120; Ten-Point Program, 72–73, 120, 121, 122
The Black Power Mixtape, 7
Black Reconstruction (Du Bois), 70, 116
Black women civil rights activists, 66–68, 86
Boston Marathon bombing, 2013, 92
bourgeoisie. See middle class
Bowers, Veronza, 93
boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, 9, 10, 43, 44–45, 54
boycott of buses, Montgomery, Alabama, 1955. See Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
Boyd, Rekia, 84
Britain. See United Kingdom (UK)
British Airways, 57
Brown, Michael, xiii, 14, 32, 45, 77–90 passim, 139
Bryant, Saundra, 103
Bush, Cori, 81
Butler, Judith: Gender Trouble, 100
Canada, 113
Cape Town, 17
capitalism, 29, 104, 123, 125, 142–43. See also global capitalism
capital punishment. See death penalty
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Stanley and Smith), 102
carceral feminism, 138
Carey, Miriam, 84
Carolina Chocolate Drops, 103
Central Intelligence Agency. See CIA
Central Pasco Girls Academy, 56
Çetin, Fethiye, 135; My Grandmother, 133–34
Charleston, South Carolina, 84, 87–88
Chicago, 84, 91–92, 94, 95, 98
children, 37, 56, 63–64, 89, 118, 119, 132, 141
Chile, 40
Civil Rights Act, 37
Civil Rights Congress, 132, 134
civil rights movement, 16, 34, 48, 53, 61–76 passim, 88, 118–19; children’s participation, 37, 63, 118, 119; terminological distinctions, 115
class. See middle class; working class
Cleveland, 84
Clinton, Bill, 63
Clinton, Hillary, 87
Coles, Deborah, 57
Collins, Sarah, 64
colonization and colonialism, 81, 82, 136
colleges and universities. See universities and colleges
Colvin, Claudette, 118
Combined Systems, Inc., 140
Communist Party of South Africa. See South African Communist Party (SACP)
Communist Party USA, vii, 8, 132
Confederate flag, 84
Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), 58
convict lease system, 118
corporations, 142. See also G4S
counterterrorism. See “war on terror”
“criming while White,” 33
Critical Ethnic Studies Association, 45
Critical Resistance, 24
Cuba, 53, 74, 77, 79, 140. See also Guantánamo Bay detention center
cultural boycotts, 9
Dalits, 114
Davis, Angela, 7–9 passim, 63, 92–93, 111, 113, 114, 130–31, 141; Women, Race and Class, 19
Davies, Carol Boyce: Left of Karl Marx, 66
Davis, Mike, 24
death penalty, 28–30, 85, 107, 138
Defense Department. See US Department of Defense
De Klerk, F. W., 38
Democratic Party: national convention of 1964, 68
demonstrations. See protests and demonstrations
developmentally disabled people, incarceration of, 97
Dink, Hrant, 129, 130, 135, 145
domestic workers, women. See women domestic workers
Douglass, Frederick, 33, 111, 112, 116
DREAM Act (proposed), 125
drones, 64
Du Bois, W. E. B., 25, 132; Black Reconstruction, 70, 116
education, 23, 72, 120. See also public education; schools
elections, presidential, 2, 3, 35, 77, 112, 123–24, 136
Emancipation Proclamation, 62, 68–70 passim, 115, 116
ethnic cleansing. See genocide
exceptionalism, US. See US exceptionalism
FBI, vii, 78, 92, 93, 94, 131, 139
feminism, 4, 27–28, 47–48, 95–105 passim, 109, 124–25, 141–42. See also black feminism; carceral feminism
Ferguson, Missouri, xiii, 13, 14, 32, 36, 45, 77–90 passim, 136–37, 150; and Palestine/Palestinians, xiii, 42, 84, 85, 90, 139–40
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (Foner), 69
filicide, 134
Fitch, Timothy, 139
Fitzgerald, Romaine, 93
Florida Atlantic University, 108
Foner, Eric: The Fiery Trial, 69
“forty acres and a mule,” 120
Francis, Sahar, 55
freedom movement. See civil rights movement
Friends. See Quakers
Gandhi, Mohandas, 114
Garner, Eric, 31, 32, 45, 84, 137
gay marriage. See same-sex marriage
Gender Trouble (Butler), 100
general strikes, 70
Geneva Conventions, 9
GEO Group, 108
Georgia, 29
Gezi Park, Istanbul. See Taksim Gezi Park, Istanbul
G4S, 5–6, 51, 55–59 passim, 108, 142–43
global capitalism, 1, 7, 25, 40, 58, 125, 142
Gore, Al, 124
Gramsci, Antonio, 49
Gray, Freddie, 84
Great Britain. See United Kingdom (UK)
Guantánamo Bay detention center, 3, 124
Hall, Stuart, 144
Hamer, Fannie Lou, 68
Harcourt, Bernard, 97
health care, 7, 23–24, 72–73, 108, 120, 122
heteronormativity, 126
Hikmet, Nâzim, 130
Holder, Eric, 35
Homeland Security Department. See US Department of Homeland Security
homophobia, 39, 52, 75–76, 89, 93, 109
hooks, bell, 19
The House That Herman Built, 74
human rights, 96
“I Have a Dream” speech (King), 65
illiteracy, 23
immigration policy, 6, 39, 57–59 passim, 79, 107, 124–26 passim, 143
Imus, Don, 107
incarceration. See political prisoners; prison-industrial complex
indigenous Americans. See Native Americans
indigenous Australians. See aboriginal Australians
individualism, 1–2, 49, 52, 119, 137–39 passim
International Political Prisoners Committee, 54
intersectionality, 18–19, 21, 41–42, 45, 89, 144
Iraq, 79
Islamophobia. See anti-Muslim racism
Israel, 4–10 passim, 15, 20, 45, 53–59 passim; African American relations, 44; Black Panthers, 114; Freedom Riders, 75; GS4 in, 55–58 passim, 143; militarization of police, 14; prisons and prisoners, 5, 10, 56, 108; training of US police, 15, 139; US aid to, 10, 54; war on terror and, 79. See also boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement
Italy, 82
Ivy League universities, 134–35
Johnson, Lyndon B., 38
Jones, Claudia, 66
Kelley, Robin D. G., 31
Kilroy, Debbie, 27
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 2, 62–67 passim, 85, 111, 114, 118–19, 121, 127
Ku Klux Klan, 16, 71, 77, 117, 133, 141
Kurwa, Rahim, 43
law and legislation, 16–17, 37
Lawrence, Stephen, 65
Left of Karl Marx (Davies), 66
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (King), 62
Lewis, Karen, 95
LGBTQ people, 89, 102, 125–26. See also lesbians; same-sex marriage; trans people
Lincoln (Spielberg), 68, 69, 70
Magee, Ruchell, 93
Malcolm X. See X, Malcolm
Mandela, Nelson, 1, 8, 11, 51–54 passim, 79
Maori people, 114
marches, protest. See protests and demonstrations
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 63, 64
marriage, 126. See also same-sex marriage
Martin, Trayvon, 15, 16, 65, 77, 85, 92, 120, 144
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Washington, DC, 121
McDonald, Cece, 99
media, 33, 34, 63, 78, 100, 139; international effect, 113, 139–40. See also social media
Meillassoux, Claude, 134
mental health care, 23–24, 56, 97
middle class, 95, 125. See also Black middle class
Middle East Studies Association (MESA), 44, 45
militarization of police. See police militarization
military interventionism, 64
military service by gays and lesbians, 125
Minneapolis, 99
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 68
Modern Language Association, 9
Mondo we Langa, 93
Monsanto, 75
Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955, 65–68 passim, 86, 118
monuments and memorials, 121
Morrison, Toni: Beloved, 134
Mos Def, 121
Most Wanted lists. See Ten Most Wanted lists
My Grandmother (Çetin), 133–34
Nairobi Women’s Conference, 1985. See World Conference on Women, Nairobi, 1985
National Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression, 117
National Women’s Studies Association, (NWSA), 44
Native Americans, 9, 19–20, 39, 82, 134–35, 136
Native Australians. See aboriginal Australians
Negro Youth Congress. See Southern Negro Youth Congress
New Jersey Four, 100
The New Jim Crow (Alexander), 13
New York State, 29. See also Attica Prison Rebellion, 1971
New Zealand, 114
Nixon, Richard, 79, 92–93, 131
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (Spade), 102
Obama, Barack, 34–39 passim, 63, 68, 77, 87–88, 123–25 passim; election (2008), 2, 3, 35, 77, 112, 123; election (2012), 123–24; health care policy, 122; Israel relations/policy, 10, 54; proclamation on Emancipation Proclamation, 115
Ocalan, Abdullah, 131
Occupy movement, 29, 122, 123, 144
Olivia Records, 96
optimism, 49
Pakistan, 64
Palestine and Palestinians, xii, xiii, 4, 8–15 passim, 21, 41–47 passim, 53–60 passim, 127; Ferguson, Missouri, and, xiii, 84, 85, 90, 139–40; Freedom Rides, 75, 114; GS4 and, 143; South Africa and, 53, 54; war on terror and, 79. See also boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement
Palestinian Americans, 90
Palestinian Chileans, 40
Parks, Rosa, 118
Patterson, Orlando, 67
Patterson, William L., 132
Pentagon. See US Department of Defense
“personal is political,” 105, 106, 142
pessimism, 49
pharmaceutical-industrial complex, 106
Poindexter, Ed, 93
police, killings by, 14, 15, 31–32, 45, 77–90 passim, 94, 120, 133–37 passim; South Africa, 17
police militarization, 14–15, 20, 45–46, 140; Ferguson, Missouri, 14, 32, 35, 45–46, 79, 85, 90, 139
policing of gender. See gender policing
political parties, 4. See also Black Panther Party; Democratic Party
political prisoners, 27, 73–74, 93–94, 113; Palestinian, 5, 10, 54, 55, 108; Turkey, 131. See also Cuban Five
poor people, 67, 73, 95, 118, 125, 126; education, 56, 71
presidential elections. See elections, presidential
prison abolition, 6, 21–30 passim, 37, 75, 90, 97–106 passim, 138, 142; suggested in BPP Ten-Point Program, 73
prisoners, 26–27, 122; Native American, 136; transgender, 99, 104–5; Turkey, 131; women, 143–44. See also political prisoners
prison-industrial complex, 5–7 passim, 13, 36–39 passim, 55–60 passim, 88, 97–107 passim; Assata Shakur on, 110; statistics, 64–65
“prison-industrial complex” (term), 24
private prisons, 6, 24, 43, 56, 57, 58, 108, 143
profiling, racial. See racial profiling
“Progressives Except Palestine” (PEPs), 42
protests and demonstrations, 63, 64, 81–85 passim, 117, 123, 136–37; repression of, 45, 79, 85; Turkey, 144
psychiatric incarceration, 97, 106
public education, 71, 107–8, 116
Quakers, 23
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Ritchie, Whitlock, and Mogul), 102
racial segregation, 16, 66–67, 71, 114, 117, 133, 141. See also Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
racism, anti-Muslim. See anti-Muslim racism
Radical Reconstruction, 70–71, 115–16
Ragland, David, 81
Raleigh, North Carolina, 117
Ransby, Barbara, 86
Reagan, Ronald, vii, viii, 106, 131
Rembis, Michael, 97
retributive justice, 106, 137. See also death penalty
Rice, Tamir, 84
Richie, Beth E., 92, 105; Arrested Justice, 100
right to vote, 37, 88. See also voter suppression
Ritchie, Andrea: Queer (In)Justice, 102
Riverside Church speech (King), 65
Robeson, Paul, 132
Robinson, Cedric, 112
Robinson, Jo Ann: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It, 118
St. Louis County, Missouri, 139. See also Ferguson, Missouri
same-sex marriage, 89, 109, 119, 125–26
schools, 5, 56, 95. See also universities and colleges
Scott, Walter, 84
segregation: Palestine, 60. See also racial segregation
Selek, Pinar, 131
separation wall. See apartheid wall
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 79, 90, 139
sexism, 78
sexual violence, 138, 143, 144. See also rape
Shakur, Assata, 74, 78, 79, 80, 92–95 passim, 109–10, 140–41
Shallal, Andy, 121
Sikhs, 126
Sisters Inside, 27
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, 63, 119, 141
slavery, 16, 25–26, 30, 36, 67–70 passim, 81, 82, 88, 117; British abolition, 62, 68; escapes, 113; filicide in, 134; as ghost, 115; incarceration compared, 122; Ivy League and, 135; Meillassoux definition, 134. See also Emancipation Proclamation
Smith, Frank “Big Black,” 98
Smith, Nat: Captive Genders, 102
social class. See middle class; working class
social media, 42, 137, 139. See also tweets and tweeting (Twitter)
Society of Friends. See Quakers
songs, freedom. See freedom songs
South Africa, 8–11 passim, 17–20 passim, 38–40 passim, 51–54, 58, 60, 78, 114; Cuban Five and, 83; US comparison, 124
South African Communist Party (SACP), 9, 52
Southern Negro Youth Congress, 66
Starbucks, 143
stereotypes, 33
Stonewall Rebellion, 98
strikes, 58. See also general strikes; hunger strikes
student movement, 28, 42–43, 47
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 68
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), 42, 43, 47
Sweet Honey in the Rock, 121
Syriza, x
Taksim Gezi Park, Istanbul, 144
tear gas, 140
Ten Most Wanted lists, vii, 74, 78, 92, 130, 140, 141
Ten-Point Program (Black Panther Party), 72–73, 120, 121, 122
terrorism, war on. See “war on terror”
“terrorist” (label), 74, 78, 92–93, 141
TGI Justice Project. See Transgender, Gender Variant, Intersex Justice Project (TGI Justice Project)
Third World Women’s Alliance, 18
Thirteenth Amendment, 68–69, 115
This Bridge Called My Back (Anzaldúa and Moraga), 19
Thomas, Alesia, 84
“three strikes” laws, 25
Transgender, Gender Variant, Intersex Justice Project (TGI Justice Project), 98–101 passim
trans people, 28, 59, 96–105 passim. See also transphobia; trans women
transphobia, 75–76, 89, 96–97, 99, 109
trans women, 96–97, 98–99, 100, 101
Triple Jeopardy, 18
Tubman, Harriet, 70
Twice toward Justice (Colvin), 118
tweets and tweeting (Twitter), 42, 85, 90, 140
UCLA. See University of California: Los Angeles (UCLA)
Umkhonto we Sizwe, 9
United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 131–32, 133
United Nations World Conference on Women, Nairobi, 1985. See World Conference on Women, Nairobi, 1985
United Kingdom (UK), 5, 12–13, 52, 57–58, 66, 143; slavery abolition, 62, 68
universities and colleges, 28, 42, 43, 71, 108, 134–35
University of California, vii; Los Angeles (UCLA), 43
University of Southern Illinois, 28
US Constitution. Thirteenth Amendment. See Thirteenth Amendment
US Department of Defense, 79
US Department of Homeland Security, 74, 141; Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 93
US exceptionalism, 41
vigilantes and vigilantism, 16, 65, 77, 85
Vilkomerson, Rebecca, 42
violence, domestic. See domestic violence
violence, sexual. See sexual violence
voter suppression, 124
voting rights. See right to vote
Wackenhut, 108
Wallace, Michelle, 19
wanted suspects lists. See Ten Most Wanted lists
“war on terror,” 5, 64, 74, 75, 78–79, 126
Washington, DC, 63, 64, 84, 121
Whitlock, Kay: Queer (In)Justice, 102
Wilberforce, William, 68
“woman” (category), 96, 98, 104
women, trans. See trans women
women domestic workers, 66–68 passim, 118
Women, Race and Class (Davis), 19
women’s movement, 4, 18–19. See also feminism
Woodfox, Albert, 93
working class, 95, 125. See also women domestic workers
World Conference on Women, Nairobi, 1985, 96
Young, Lola, 62
Zimmerman, George, 16, 85, 144
Zinn, Howard, 46