The punitive turn: new approaches to race and incarceration

1. Punishment in historical perspective

"Please hear our cries": the hidden history of black prisoners in America / Mary Ellen Curtin

From researching the past to reimagining the future: locating carceral crisis and the key to its end, in the long twentieth century / Heather Ann Thompson

"Bright and good looking colored girl": black women's sexuality and "harmful intimacy" in early-twentieth-century New York / Cheryl D. Hicks

Abject correction and penal medical photography in the early twentieth century / Ethan Blue

Mass incarceration, prisoner rights, and the legacy of the radical prison movement / Anoop Mirpuri

2. Social and economic consequences of punishment

Economic and relational penalties of incarceration / Charles E. Lewis Jr.

Implications of mass imprisonment for inequality among American children / Christopher Wildeman, Anna R. Haskins, and Christopher Muller

The "hard back" of mass incarceration: fear, structural racism, and the overpunishment of violent crime / Jonathan Simon

3. Race, prison and the aesthetic imagination

Rage against the machine: African American music and the evolution of the penitentiary blues, 1961-2000 / Claudrena N. Harold

Law and dis/order: the banefully alluring arts of the carceral imaginary / Marlon B. Ross

4. Life after prison: Interviews

Jim Shea, interviewed by Jared Brown

Harold Folley, interviewed by Tshepo Morongwa Chéry

Eddie Harris, interviewed by Tshepo Morongwa Chéry

Debbie Walker, interviewed by Tshepo Morongwa Chéry.