In this timely book, renowned criminologist and activist Renny Golden sheds light on the women behind bars and the 350,000 children they leave behind. In exposing the fastest growing prison ...population-a direct result of Reagan's War on Drugs-Golden sets up new framework for thinking about how to address the situation of mothers in prison, the risks and needs of their children and the implications of current judicial policies.
"In her book War on the Family Mothers in Prison and the Families They Leave Behind , Renny Golden brings to life the pains of imprisonment that incarcerated mothers and their children experience...By sharing the stories of incarcerated mothers and their children in two geographical regions, Golden offers an insightful picture of this typically forgotten group...the author examines the long-term impact of incarceration on the children of incarcerated parents, which few studies have done." -- Jennifer Cobbina, Criminal Justice Review, March 2008
Renny Golden is Professor of Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Social Work at Northeastern Illinois University. She is a criminologist, published poet, and well-known activist for social rights in El Salvador and Guatamala. Her previous publications include, Disposable Children: America's Child Welfare System and Oscar Romero: Reflections on His Life and Writings .
Liberty's Prisonersexamines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary was founded in ...Philadelphia in 1790, a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution's wake. Those who were previously dependents with no legal standing-women, enslaved people, and indentured servants-increasingly claimed their own right to life, liberty, and happiness. A diverse cast of women and men, including immigrants, African Americans, and the Irish and Anglo-American poor, struggled to make a living. Vagrancy laws were used to crack down on those who visibly challenged longstanding social hierarchies while criminal convictions carried severe sentences for even the most trivial property crimes.
The penitentiary was designed to reestablish order, both behind its walls and in society at large, but the promise of reformative incarceration failed from its earliest years. Within this system, women served a vital function, and Liberty's Prisoners is the first book to bring to life the experience of African American, immigrant, and poor white women imprisoned in early America. Always a minority of prisoners, women provided domestic labor within the institution and served as model inmates, more likely to submit to the authority of guards, inspectors, and reformers. White men, the primary targets of reformative incarceration, challenged authorities at every turn while African American men were increasingly segregated and denied access to reform.
Liberty's Prisonerschronicles how the penitentiary, though initially designed as an alternative to corporal punishment for the most egregious of offenders, quickly became a repository for those who attempted to lay claim to the new nation's promise of liberty.
When a woman leaves prison, she enters a world of competing messages and conflicting advice. Staff from prison, friends, family members, workers at halfway houses and treatment programs all have ...something to say about who she is, who she should be, and what she should do.The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemmaoffers an in-depth, firsthand look at how the former prisoner manages messages about returning to the community.Over the course of a year, Andrea Leverentz conducted repeated interviews with forty-nine women as they adjusted to life outside of prison and worked to construct new ideas of themselves as former prisoners and as mothers, daughters, sisters, romantic partners, friends, students, and workers. Listening to these women, along with their family members, friends, and co-workers, Leverentz pieces together the narratives they have created to explain their past records and guide their future behavior. She traces where these narratives came from and how they were shaped by factors such as gender, race, maternal status, age, and experiences in prison, halfway houses, and twelve-step programs-factors that in turn shaped the women's expectations for themselves, and others' expectations of them. The women's stories form a powerful picture of the complex, complicated human experience behind dry statistics and policy statements regarding prisoner reentry into society for women, how the experience is different for men and the influence society plays.With its unique view of how society's mixed messages play out in ex-prisoners' lived realities,The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemmashows the complexity of these women's experiences within the broad context of the war on drugs and mass incarceration in America. It offers invaluable lessons for helping such women successfully rejoin society.
Vital Enemies Santos-Granero, Fernando
2009, 20090101
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Analyzing slavery and other forms of servitude in six non-state indigenous societies of tropical America at the time of European contact, Vital Enemies offers a fascinating new approach to the study ...of slavery based on the notion of “political economy of life.” Fernando Santos-Granero draws on the earliest available historical sources to provide novel information on Amerindian regimes of servitude, sociologies of submission, and ideologies of capture. Estimating that captive slaves represented up to 20 percent of the total population and up to 40 percent when combined with other forms of servitude, Santos-Granero argues that native forms of servitude fulfill the modern understandings of slavery, though Amerindian contexts provide crucial distinctions with slavery as it developed in the American South. The Amerindian understanding of life forces as being finite, scarce, unequally distributed, and in constant circulation yields a concept of all living beings as competing for vital energy. The capture of human beings is an extreme manifestation of this understanding, but it marks an important element in the ways Amerindian “captive slavery” was misconstrued by European conquistadors. Illuminating a cultural facet that has been widely overlooked or miscast for centuries, Vital Enemies makes possible new dialogues regarding hierarchies in the field of native studies, as well as a provocative re-framing of pre- and post-contact America.
By the time of the Vietnam War era, the “Mexican American Generation” had made tremendous progress both socially and politically. However, the number of Mexican Americans in comparison to the number ...of white prisoners of war (POWs) illustrated the significant discrimination and inequality the Chicano population faced in both military and civilian landscapes. Chicanos were disproportionately “grunts” (infantry), who were more likely to be killed when captured, while pilots and officers were more likely to be both white and held as POWs for negotiating purposes. A fascinating look at the Vietnam War era from a Chicano perspective, “I’m Not Gonna Die in this Damn Place”: Manliness, Identity, and Survival of the Mexican American Vietnam Prisoners of War gives voice to the Mexican American POWs. The stories of these men and their families provide insights to the Chicano Vietnam War experience, while also adding tremendously to the American POW story. This book is an important read for academics and military enthusiasts alike.
Resumen: Este proyecto está promovido por CREAMA (Consorcio para la Recuperación Económica y de la Actividad de la Marina Alta – www.creama.org) contribuyendo al objetivo de facilitar la cohesión ...social de la Marina Alta y conseguir un desarrollo sostenible que corrija los desequilibrios territoriales de la comarca a partir del desarrollo de una acción articulada por parte de los miembros del consorcio, facilitando la consecución de un producto que, de manera aislada, no puede obtener cada uno los entes consorciados. La finalidad del Consorcio es el desarrollo local de la Marina Alta y la gastronomía es uno de los principales activos de nuestra economía comarcal aportando mayor dinamismo, si cabe, al turismo. La gastronomía puede constituirse como un elemento clave para estimular el desarrollo económico local con criterios de sostenibilidad territorial, preservación del paisaje, del patrimonio cultural y natural, y de los productos locales. En este contexto, CREAMA participa de la preocupación por preservar uno de los tesoros de la Marina Alta, el rico patrimonio culinario culinario tradicional y que, junto a otros, sirve de rasgo diferenciador de nuestra comarca. La riqueza culinaria del territorio se ha transmitido de forma oral entre las distintas generaciones, tradicionalmente de madres a hijas. El clima del mediterráneo y la diferente orografía del territorio que combina la zona montañosa del interior con los valles de la zona intermedia y todo el litoral costero, hacen que nuestra comarca cuente con una materia prima variada y de calidad que ha permitido el desarrollo de una cultura gastronómica tan importante que ha conseguido la mención internacional de la Unesco como un patrimonio a salvaguardar para las generaciones venideras, con la designación en diciembre de 2015 de Dénia como ciudad creativa de la gastronomía. Esta inquietud nos llevó a realizar un primer intento de recuperación y catalogación con el Proyecto T’Avalem Marina Alta I (2017-2018), programa mixto de formación – empleo financiado por el Servicio Valenciano de Empleo y Formación. En este proyecto se planteó como obra o servicio a realizar por el alumnado de la especialidad del área profesional de gestión de la información y la comunicación, la búsqueda y recopilación bibliográfica del patrimonio culinario de la Marina Alta siguiendo las recomendaciones de la UNESCO en cuanto a continuar con la recopilación e inventario del patrimonio cultural inmaterial gastronómico de nuestra comarca, participando en el diseño de las herramientas informáticas y de difusión en las que se compilase este inventario y obteniendo un catálogo del patrimonio cultural y tradicional de la Marina Alta para ponerlo a disposición de su ciudadanía. Para el desarrollo del proyecto contamos con el apoyo de algunas de las entidades e instituciones más representativas de la comarca en los ámbitos culturales y gastronómicos: i) el Institut d’Estudis Comarcals de la Marina Alta (IECMA) (www.iecma.net); ii) la Mancomunitat Comarcal de la Marina Alta (MACMA) (www.macma.org); y iii) la Oficina de la Creatividad y la Innovación de Dénia – UNESCO Ciudad de la Gastronomía por la iniciativa «Dénia&Marina Alta #Tastinglife». (https://deniacreative.city/).
Palabras clave: Desarrollo, territorio, patrimonio, cultura, gastronomía, CREAMA, Ciutat Creativa UNESCO, Marina Alta.
Way Down in the Hole Kupers, Terry A; Smith, Earl; Hattery, Angela J
2022, 2022-10-14
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Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units, Way Down in the Hole explores the myriad ways in ...which daily, intimate interactions between those locked up twenty-four hours a day and the correctional officers charged with their care, custody, and control produce and reproduce hegemonic racial ideologies. Smith and Hattery explore the outcome of building prisons in rural, economically depressed communities, staffing them with white people who live in and around these communities, filling them with Black and brown bodies from urban areas and then designing the structure of solitary confinement units such that the most private, intimate daily bodily functions take place in very public ways. Under these conditions, it shouldn’t be surprising, but is rarely considered, that such daily interactions produce and reproduce white racial resentment among many correctional officers and fuel the racialized tensions that prisoners often describe as the worst forms of dehumanization. Way Down in the Hole concludes with recommendations for reducing the use of solitary confinement, reforming its use in a limited context, and most importantly, creating an environment in which prisoners and staff co-exist in ways that recognize their individual humanity and reduce rather than reproduce racial antagonisms and racial resentment.
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