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Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations in the Text -- Introduction -- Part I: A Biography of Coerced Labor and State Violence -- Chapter 1. Fears of Contagion, Strategies of Containment: Pathologizing Homosexuality, Incarcerating Bodies, and Reshaping the Southern Prison Farm -- Chapter 2. A Fine Southern Plantation: Perfecting Prison Slave Labor as the Agribusiness Model -- Chapter 3. Enslaving Prison Bodies: : Labor Division, Prison Rape, and the Internal Prison Economy -- Part II: Resistance -- Chapter 4. From Pachuco to Writ Writer: The Carceral Rehabilitation of Fred Cruz -- Chapter 5. Eight Hoe-Sowing Seeds of Dissension: Chicanos and Muslims Make a Prison-Made Civil Rights Revolution -- Chapter 6. Attica South: Black Political Organizing against the Prison Plantation -- Chapter 7. The Aztlán Outlaw and Black Reform Politics: The Carrasco Hostage Crisis and the Collapse of Political Reform -- Chapter 8. Testimonios of Resistance: The Slave Narrative and the Prison Labor Strike of 1978 -- Part III: Collapse of the Prison Plantation and the Carceral Phoenix -- Chapter 9. Stuck between Justice and the Carceral State: Ruiz v. Estelle and the Politics of Mass Incarceration -- Chapter 10. War on the Prison Insurgent: Prison Gangs, the Militarized Prison, and the Persistence of Carceral Violence -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index of Cases.

This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways in which citizens and migrants alike have been caged, detained, deported, and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, converging and coercive legal powers, and national sovereignty. As these studies depict the institutional development and state scaffolding of overlapping carceral regimes, they also consider how prisoners and immigrants resisted such oppression and violence by drawing on the transnational politics of human rights and liberation, transcending the isolation of incarceration, detention, deportation and the boundaries of domestic law.