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Capital and convict : race, region, and punishment in post-Civil War America /

Title:
Capital and convict : race, region, and punishment in post-Civil War America /
Author:
Kamerling, Henry, 1967- author.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emmanuel College
Contents:
Introduction -- I. Politics. Politics and race in South Carolina's postwar penitentiary -- Politics and ethnicity in Illinois's postwar penitentiaries -- Politics and capitalism in the penitentiary -- II. Ideology. The ideology of rehabilitation in the postwar penitentiary -- Assimilation versus exclusion in the ideology of late nineteenth-century punishment -- III. Culture. Punishment and violence in the penitentiary -- Resistance, assimilation, and convict culture in the penitentiary -- Conclusion.

Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emmanuel Main Stacks
HV9466 .K35 2017Available