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Book

Stolen wealth, hidden power : the case for reparations for mass incarceration

Call Number

  • 365 M4788 (POW)

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Publication Information

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

Physical Description

xii, 297 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Summary

"Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power contends that the deep economic inequality and racial disparities that Americans take for granted have been quietly held in place by the four-decade campaign of racialized state violence known as mass incarceration. Tasseli McKay presents detailed evidence that the steep direct costs of mass-scale imprisonment are far overshadowed by its hidden costs and harms, many of which have been kept out of sight by women's invisible labor. Finding that the economic value of the damages to Black individuals, families, and communities totals $7.13 trillion--a sum equivalent to 85 percent of the current Black-White household wealth gap--McKay points to the urgency and feasibility of reparation and to the possibilities that lie beyond it"--

Contents

  • Disremembered and unaccounted for : a legacy of (forgetting) harm
  • "Institutionalized" : the hyper-regulation of childhood challenges
  • "More than a shell" : perpetual imprisonment
  • "I always put the burden on her shoulders" : The invisible weight of mass incarceration
  • "They needed me there"
  • "Systematic deconstruction"
  • Dreaming an America beyond mass incarceration.

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