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We Are Not Slaves
Robert T. Chase
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Hank Lacayo Best Labor Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards
Best Book Award, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice, American Society of Criminology
In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plantations. This system persisted until the 1940s when, led by Texas, southern states adopted northern prison design reforms. Texas presented the reforms to the public as modern, efficient, and disciplined. Inside prisons, however, the transition to penitentiary cells only made the endemic violence more secretive, intensifying the labor division that privileged some prisoners with the power to accelerate state-orchestrated brutality and the internal sex trade. Reformers' efforts had only made things worse--now it was up to the prisoners to fight for change.
Drawing from three decades of legal documents compiled by prisoners, Robert T. Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within. Prisoners forged an alliance with the NAACP to contest the constitutionality of Texas prisons. Behind bars, a prisoner coalition of Chicano Movement and Black Power organizations publicized their deplorable conditions as "slaves of the state" and initiated a prison-made civil rights revolution and labor protest movement. These insurgents won epochal legal victories that declared conditions in many southern prisons to be cruel and unusual--but their movement was overwhelmed by the increasing militarization of the prison system and empowerment of white supremacist gangs that, together, declared war on prison organizers. Told from the vantage point of the prisoners themselves, this book weaves together untold but devastatingly important truths from the histories of labor, civil rights, and politics in the United States as it narrates the transition from prison plantations of the past to the mass incarceration of today.
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Fred Cruz, Ruiz v.Estelle, Mickey Leland, George, Sexual violence in prison, Carceral violence, Chicano Movement in Prison, Prison Gangs in Texas, Tejano Syndicato (Texas Syndicate), Eddie Bernice Johnson, Prison farm, Angola, Louisiana, Black Power in Prison, Ernest McMillan, Eddie James Ward, Austin MacCormick, Prison labor, David Ruiz, Incarceration in the South, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Prisoners’ Rights, Prisoners’ rights, Carceral Violence, Testimonios and oral history in Texas prisons, Building Tenders and southern trustees, Ray Hill, Mexikanemi (Texas Mexican Mafia), Solitary confinement, Special Operations Response Teams (SORT), Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT), civil rights in prison, Aryan Brotherhood, Mass Incarceration