The Punishment Monopoly - Tales of My Ancestors, Dispossession, and the Building of the United States

Why, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country proclaiming "liberty and justice for all"? The Punishment Monopoly challenges conventional American historiography. It focusses on the constructions of race, class, and gender upon which the United States was built,

About the author

Pem Davidson Buck is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College in Kentucky. Her work has focused on whiteness, on the discourses of inequality, and most recently on theorizing the carceral state and the relationship between state formation and punishment. She is the author of Worked to the Bone: Race, Class, Power, and Privilege in Kentucky and In/Equality: An Alternative Anthropology.

Summary

Why, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country proclaiming “liberty and justice for all”? The Punishment Monopoly challenges conventional American historiography. It focusses on the constructions of race, class, and gender upon which the United States was built,

Product details

• Authors: Pem Davidson Buck
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781583678329
• ISBN: 978-1-58367-832-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 139 mm x 34 mm
• Weight: 504 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Strafrechtswissenschaft (Pönologie)