Doing Time in the Depression : Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons / Ethan Blue.
2012
HV9475.C2 B58 2012
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Title
Doing Time in the Depression : Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons / Ethan Blue.
Author
Blue, Ethan, author.
ISBN
9780814723166
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
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Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814709405.001.0001 doi
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HV9475.C2 B58 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
365.976409043
Summary
As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working people from around the country and the world-overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately non-white, and displaced by economic crisis.Ethan Blue paints a vivid portrait of everyday life inside Texas and California's penal systems. Each element of prison life-from numbing boredom to hard labor, from meager pleasure in popular culture to crushing pain from illness or violence-demonstrated a contest between keepers and the kept. From the moment they arrived to the day they would leave, inmates struggled over the meanings of race and manhood, power and poverty, and of the state itself. In this richly layered account, Blue compellingly argues that punishment in California and Texas played a critical role in producing a distinctive set of class, race, and gender identities in the 1930s, some of which reinforced the social hierarchies and ideologies of New Deal America, and others of which undercut and troubled the established social order. He reveals the underside of the modern state in two very different prison systems, and the making of grim institutions whose power would only grow across the century.
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American History and Culture ; ; 7
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Of Bodies and Borders
2. Work in the Walled City
3. From Can See to Can't
4. Shifting Markets of Power
5. Thirty Minutes behind the Walls
6. Sport and Celebration in the Popular Culture of Punishment
7. A Dark Cloud Would Go Over
8. Going Home
Epilogue
Notes
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Of Bodies and Borders
2. Work in the Walled City
3. From Can See to Can't
4. Shifting Markets of Power
5. Thirty Minutes behind the Walls
6. Sport and Celebration in the Popular Culture of Punishment
7. A Dark Cloud Would Go Over
8. Going Home
Epilogue
Notes
Index
About the Author