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How did the land of the free become the home of the world's largest prison system? Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: not the War on Drugs of the Reagan administration but the War on Crime that began during Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era

"In the United States today, one in every 31 adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era. Johnson's War on Poverty policies sought to foster equality and economic opportunity. But these initiatives were also rooted in widely shared assumptions about African Americans' role in urban disorder, which prompted Johnson to call for a simultaneous War on Crime. The 1965 Law Enforcement Assistance Act empowered the national government to take a direct role in militarizing local police. Federal anticrime funding soon incentivized social service providers to ally with police departments, courts, and prisons. Under Richard Nixon and his successors, welfare programs fell by the wayside while investment in policing and punishment expanded. Anticipating future crime, policy makers urged states to build new prisons and introduced law enforcement measures into urban schools and public housing, turning neighborhoods into targets of police surveillance. By the 1980s, crime control and incarceration dominated national responses to poverty and inequality. The initiatives of that decade were less a sharp departure than the full realization of the punitive transformation of urban policy implemented by Republicans and Democrats alike since the 1960s."--Provided by publisher

"The New Black History anthology presents cutting-edge scholarship on key issues that define African American politics, life, and culture, especially during the Civil Rights and Black Power eras. The volume includes articles by both established scholars and a rising generation of young scholars and demonstrates a profound analysis of black American history since 1954. The New Black History fills a gap in existing literature on post-World War II African-American History by providing an in-depth historical narrative that also offers critical interpretation of key issues, persons, and events that have come to define the field in recent years"--

Rezension: Rassismus, Polizeigewalt, ungerechtes Justizsystem, systematische Unterdrückung, schlechte Lebensbedingungen. Das sind einige der vielen Gründe für die Aufstände der Schwarzen Bevölkerung , die seit den 1960er-Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts in Wellen in den USA aufkommen. Detaillierte Schilderung.Eine Seite der USA-Geschichte in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten ist die der massiven Rassenunruhen in den 1960er- und 1970er-Jahren sowie die immer wieder aufflammenden vereinzelten Aufstände in den Folgejahrzehnten, wie in Fergusen 2014. Es ist der Krieg zwischen der Schwarzen Bevölkerung - unterprivilegiert, häufig arbeitslos oder unterbezahlt, schlechte Wohnverhältnisse und Bildungschancen - und den zumeist weissen Polizeikräften und der weissen Justiz. Das Verhältnis ist geprägt von Missachtung, Repression, unverhältnismäi︣ger Gewalt und unfairem Justizsystem, das schwarze Täter*innen für minimale Vergehen inhaftiert und Polizeibeamte, die Schwarze töten, freispricht. Die "white supremacy" wird überall deutlich, auch dort, wo vermeintlich vernünftige Sozialprogramme die Lebensverhältnisse der Schwarzen verbessern sollen. - Das Buch schildert in sehr grosser Detailgenauigkeit den Kreislauf zwischen Polizeigewalt und Schwarzem Aufstand, den systematischen Rassismus, zeigt die mangelnde Unterstützung, vor allem der Schwarzen Bevölkerung, seitens der Politik. Für größere USA-Bestände ein unbedingtes Muss. (2) Evamari Eberle

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- A Note on Language -- Foreword -- Excerpts -- Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992) -- Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (2000) -- Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (2006) -- Southern Horrors: W omen and the Politics of Rape and Lynching (2009) -- Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I (2009) -- The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (2010) -- Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care (2011) -- Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (2013) -- Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity (2014) -- From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in Amer i ca (2016) -- Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (2016) -- Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (2017) -- The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation (2017) -- The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (2017) -- The Chinese Must Go: Vio lence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America (2018) -- The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti- Mexican Vio lence in Texas (2018) -- The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students (2019) -- Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White (2019) -- Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020) -- Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (2020) -- Notes -- Credits