American Purgatory - Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration

About the author

Benjamin Weber is an assistant professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis. He has worked at the Vera Institute of Justice, Alternate ROOTS, the Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, and as a public high school teacher in East Los Angeles. The author of American Purgatory (The New Press), he lives in Davis, California.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin D. Weber
• Assisted by: Ayo Y. Scott (Illustration)
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.11.2023
• EAN: 9781620975909
• ISBN: 978-1-62097-590-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; South America, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), HISTORY / Latin America / South America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United States of America, USA, Colonialism and imperialism, Human rights, civil rights, Relating to Native American people, Slavery and abolition of slavery, HISTORY / African American & Black, HISTORY / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas