Further Reading
Prisons and Punishment
- Charles Bright, The Powers That Punish: Prison and Politics in the Era of the “Big House,” 1920–1955 (Ann Arbor, 1996).
- Eric Cummins, The Rise and Fall of California’s Radical Prison Movement (Stanford, 1994).
- Mary Ellen Curtin, Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865–1900 (Charlottesville, 2000).
- David Garland, Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (Chicago, 2001).
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Berkeley, 2007).
- David M. Oshinsky, “Worse Than Slavery:” Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice (New York, 1996).
Cities and Crime
- Eric Avila, Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (Berkeley, 2004).
- Gerald Horne, Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s (Charlottesville, 1995).
- Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Princeton, 2005).
- Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Princeton, 2001).
- Natalia Molina, Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879–1939 (Berkeley, 2006).
- Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Princeton, 2005).
- Josh Sides, L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (Berkeley, 2006).
- Loïc Wacquant, “Deadly Symbiosis: When Prison and Ghetto Meet and Mesh,” Punishment and Society, 3 (Jan. 2001), 95–133.
Work, Welfare and Citizenship
- Agnes Czajka, “Inclusive Exclusion: Citizenship and the American Prisoner and Prison,” Studies in Political Economy: A Socialist Review, 76 (Autumn 2005), 111–42.
- Michael B. Katz, The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare (New York, 1989).
- Jennifer S. Light, From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America (Baltimore, 2003).
- Jennifer Mittelstadt, From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945–1965 (Chapel Hill, 2005).
- Jill Quadagno, The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty (New York, 1994).
- Elizabeth D. Samet, Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776–1898 (Stanford, 2004).
- Jonathan Simon, Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890–1990 (Chicago, 1993).
- Judith N. Sklar, American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion (Cambridge, Mass., 1991).
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