TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dilts,Andrew
TI  - Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism 
T2  - Just Ideas
SN  - 9780823262427
AV  - JK1846 .D55 2014eb
U1  - 324.6/20869270973 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - Discrimination in criminal justice administration
KW  - United States
KW  - Political rights, Loss of
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - Suffrage
KW  - Punishment
KW  - Suffrage--United States
KW  - History
KW  - Immigration & Migration
KW  - Race & Ethnic Studies
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Civil Death
KW  - Felon Disenfranchisement
KW  - John Locke
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Michel Foucault
KW  - Voting Rights
KW  - inclusion
KW  - political membership
KW  - race
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; A Note About the Cover --; 1. A Productive Injustice --; 2. Fabricating Figures --; 3. Neoliberal Penality and the Biopolitics of Homo CEconomicus --; 4. To Kill a Thief --; 5. Innocent Citizens, Guilty Subjects --; 6. Punishing at the Ballot Box --; 7. Civic Disabilities --; 8. (Re)figuring Justice --; Coda --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - At the start of the twenty-first century, 1 percent of the U.S. population is behind bars. An additional 3 percent is on parole or probation. In all but two states, incarcerated felons cannot vote, and in three states felon disenfranchisement is for life. More than 5 million adult Americans cannot vote because of a felony-class criminal conviction, meaning that more than 2 percent of otherwise eligible voters are stripped of their political rights. Nationally, fully a third of the disenfranchised are African American, effectively disenfranchising 8 percent of all African Americans in the United States. In Alabama, Kentucky, and Florida, one in every five adult African Americans cannot vote.Punishment and Inclusion gives a theoretical and historical account of this pernicious practice of felon disenfranchisement, drawing widely on early modern political philosophy, continental and postcolonial political thought, critical race theory, feminist philosophy, disability theory, critical legal studies, and archival research into state constitutional conventions. It demonstrates that the history of felon disenfranchisement, rooted in postslavery restrictions on suffrage and the contemporaneous emergence of the modern “American” penal system, reveals the deep connections between two political institutions often thought to be separate, showing the work of membership done by the criminal punishment system and the work of punishment done by the electoral franchise.Felon disenfranchisement is a symptom of the tension that persists in democratic politics between membership and punishment. This book shows how this tension is managed via the persistence of white supremacy in contemporary regimes of punishment and governance
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823262441?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823262441
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823262441/original
ER  -