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Profitable Pens: The Historical Trouble With American Prisons
Rebecca M. McLennan, The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776–1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Rebecca M. McLennan’s synthetic history of the American penal state arrived just before a public debate over … Continue reading
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The Limits of Post Colonialism: The Problem South and the Reality of Being a Poor White in the Age of Eugenics
Natalie J. Ring, The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880-1930 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012). Natalie J. Ring revises historical debates about the national understanding of the American South during the late nineteenth and early … Continue reading
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