Bücher der Reihe Justice, Power and Politics

Located on the eastern edge of Tampa, a port city along Florida's Gulf Coast, Ybor was a multiracial, multiethnic neighborhood. Sarah McNamara tells the story of how immigrant women ensured and fought for community survival across generations and against the backdrop of a post-Confederate, Jim Crow-controlled southern order.

To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex.

In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Drawing from three decades of legal documents compiled by prisoners, Robert Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within. This book highlights untold but important truths about the histories of labor, civil rights, and politics in the US.

A history of environmental racism and inequality. Linking the history of racial capitalism, environmental history, and social movement history, Toxic Debt lucidly narrates the story of debt, environmental disaster, and resistance in Detroit.

Unearths the deeper lineage of anti-war pacifist activists and thinkers from the early twentieth century who developed nonviolence into a revolutionary force for Black liberation. In telling this story, Anthony Siracusa challenges the idea that nonviolent freedom practices faded with the rise of the Black Power movement.

In 1945, El Centro, California became home to the El Centro Immigration Detention Camp. The Shadow of El Centro tells the story of how that camp evolved into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service Processing Center of the 2000s and became a national model for detaining migrants.

In this first narrative history of one of the longest boycott campaigns in US history, Allyson Brantley draws from a broad archive as well as oral history interviews with long-time boycotters to offer a compelling, grassroots view of anti-corporate organising and unlikely coalitions.

Offers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists who pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches to slow the epidemic's spread and address its impacts.

Expands the historical narrative of the black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, and contributions of southern black farmers and the organizations they formed. Whereas existing scholarship generally views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of black people, this book reveals agriculture as a site of resistance.

Chronicles the intertwined histories of constitutional doctrine, big philanthropy, professional in-fighting, and Cold War culture that made public defenders ubiquitous but embattled figures in American courtrooms.

In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by African Americans in their fight for civil and human rights. This book tells the story of their resistance and documents how Asian American political actors and civil rights activists challenged existing definitions of rights and justice in the South.

For over a century, generations of Black New Yorkers have fought to gain access to and equal opportunity within the FDNY. Tracing this struggle for jobs and justice from 1914 to the present, David Goldberg details the ways each generation of firefighters confronted overt and institutionalized racism.

The first book to tell the full history of the Republic of New Afrika (RNA) and the New Afrikan Independence Movement. Edward Onaci shows how New Afrikans remade their lifestyles to create a self-consciously revolutionary culture, and argues that the RNA's tactics and ideology were essential to the evolution of Black political struggles.

Traces how public racial violence, segregation in housing and leisure, and criminal stigmatization in popular culture and media fostered a sense of distress, isolation, and nihilism that made crime and violence seem like viable recourses in the face of white supremacy.

Highlighting the integral, often-overlooked contributions of women, people of colour, young workers, and southerners, Lane Windham reveals how in the 1970s workers combined old working-class tools - like unions and labour law - with legislative gains from the civil and women's rights movements to help shore up their prospects.

Bringing together histories of the carceral and welfare states, as well as the civil rights and Black Power movements, Lauren Pearlman narrates the struggle for self-determination in America's capital.

Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this bold new political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centres the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state.

Using dozens of new oral histories and archives, Lana Dee Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of America's already fragile social safety net in the late twentieth century.

Though local power had long existed in the hundreds of southern towns and cities that saw organized civil rights action, the Voter Education Project was vital to converting that power into political motion. Evan Faulkenbury offers an explanation of the crucial role philanthropy, outside funding, and tax policy can play in social movements.

Recounts the history of the death penalty in North Carolina, from its colonial origins to the present. Seth Kotch tracks the attempts to reform and sanitize the administration of death in a state as dedicated to its image as it was to rigid racial hierarchies.

In this history of Chicago from 1919 to the rise and fall of Black Power in the 1960s and 1970s, Simon Balto narrates the evolution of racially repressive policing in black neighbourhoods as well as how black citizen-activists challenged that repression.

Narrates the dynamic history of policing, anti-police abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosion of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at the heart of the city's expansive police power through a range of previously unused and rare archival sources.

Tells the story of black education reformers' community-based strategies to improve education beginning during the 1960s, as support for desegregation transformed into community control, experimental schooling models, and black teachers' challenges to the teachers' union. This book reveals how these strategies collided with the neoliberal educational apparatus during the late twentieth century.

In the United States, it is quite common to lay claim to the benefits of society by appealing to "taxpayer citizenship-the idea that, as taxpayers, we deserve access to certain social services like a public education. Tracing the genealogy of this concept, Camille Walsh shows how tax policy and taxpayer identity were built on the foundations of white supremacy.

In documenting how blackness became a marker of criminality that overrode the potential protections the status of "child" could have bestowed, Tera Eva Agyepong shows the entanglements between race and the state's transition to a more punitive form of juvenile justice. This important study expands the narrative of racialized criminalization in America.

Examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organisations. Complicating the assumption that race and gender constraints relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Ashley Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood.