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The Prison of Democracy : Race, Leavenworth, and the Culture of Law / Sara M. Benson.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520969490
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 365/.978138
LOC classification:
  • HV9474.L5
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Idea of Leavenworth and the Prison of Democracy -- 1. The Architecture of Liberalism and the Origins of Carceral Democracy -- 2. Territorial Politics: Mass Incarceration and the Punitive Legacies of the Indian Territory -- 3. Federal Punishment and the Legal Time of Bleeding Kansas -- 4. Federal Punishment and the Legal Time of Bleeding Kansas -- 5. Leavenworth's Political Prisoners: Race, Resistance, and the Prison's Archive -- Postscript: "Walls Turned Sideways Are Bridges": Abolition Dreams and the Prison's Aftermath -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 EnglishTitle is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE Economics, Law & Social Sciences 2019 ENGTitle is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2019Title is part of eBook package: UC Press eBook-Package 2019Title is part of eBook package: University of California Press 2019Title is part of eBook package: University of California Press Frontlist 2019Summary: At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Built in the 1890s at the center of the nation, Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary was designed specifically to be a replica of the US Capitol Building. But why? The Prison of Democracy explains the political significance of a prison built to mimic one of America's monuments to democracy. Locating Leavenworth in memory, history, and law, the prison geographically sits at the borders of Indian Territory (1825-1854) and Bleeding Kansas (1854-1864), both sites of contestation over slavery and freedom. Author Sara M. Benson argues that Leavenworth reshaped the design of punishment in America by gradually normalizing state-inflicted violence against citizens. Leavenworth's peculiar architecture illustrates the real roots of mass incarceration-as an explicitly race- and nation-building system that has been ingrained in the very fabric of US history rather than as part of a recent post-war racial history. The book sheds light on the truth of the painful relationship between the carceral state and democracy in the US-a relationship that thrives to this day.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Idea of Leavenworth and the Prison of Democracy -- 1. The Architecture of Liberalism and the Origins of Carceral Democracy -- 2. Territorial Politics: Mass Incarceration and the Punitive Legacies of the Indian Territory -- 3. Federal Punishment and the Legal Time of Bleeding Kansas -- 4. Federal Punishment and the Legal Time of Bleeding Kansas -- 5. Leavenworth's Political Prisoners: Race, Resistance, and the Prison's Archive -- Postscript: "Walls Turned Sideways Are Bridges": Abolition Dreams and the Prison's Aftermath -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Built in the 1890s at the center of the nation, Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary was designed specifically to be a replica of the US Capitol Building. But why? The Prison of Democracy explains the political significance of a prison built to mimic one of America's monuments to democracy. Locating Leavenworth in memory, history, and law, the prison geographically sits at the borders of Indian Territory (1825-1854) and Bleeding Kansas (1854-1864), both sites of contestation over slavery and freedom. Author Sara M. Benson argues that Leavenworth reshaped the design of punishment in America by gradually normalizing state-inflicted violence against citizens. Leavenworth's peculiar architecture illustrates the real roots of mass incarceration-as an explicitly race- and nation-building system that has been ingrained in the very fabric of US history rather than as part of a recent post-war racial history. The book sheds light on the truth of the painful relationship between the carceral state and democracy in the US-a relationship that thrives to this day.

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