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Author Blue, Ethan.

Title Doing time in the depression : everyday life in Texas and California prisons / Ethan Blue.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, ©2012.

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Series American history and culture
American history and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Of bodies and borders : the demography of incarceration -- Work in the walled city : labor and discipline in California's prisons -- From can see to can't : agricultural labor and industrial reform on Texas penal plantations -- Shifting markets of power : building tenders, con bosses, queens, and guards -- Thirty minutes behind the walls : prison radio and the popular culture of punishment -- Sport and celebration in the popular culture of punishment -- A dark cloud would go over : death and dying -- Going home.
Note Print version record.
Summary As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working people from around the country and the world--overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately non-white, and displaced by economic crisis. Ethan Blue paints a vivid portrait of everyday life inside Texas and California's penal systems. Each element of prison life--from numbing boredom to hard labor, from meager pleasure in popular culture to crushing pain from illness or violence--demonstrated a contest between keepers and the kept. From the moment they arrived to the day they would leave, inmates struggled over the meanings of race and manhood, power and poverty, and of the state itself. In this richly layered account, Blue compellingly argues that punishment in California and Texas played a critical role in producing a distinctive set of class, race, and gender identities in the 1930s, some of which reinforced the social hierarchies and ideologies of New Deal America, and others of which undercut and troubled the established social order. He reveals the underside of the modern state in two very different prison systems, and the making of grim institutions whose power would only grow across the century.
Language English.
Subject Prisoners -- California -- History.
Prisons -- California -- Social conditions.
Prison administration -- California -- History.
Prisoners -- Texas -- History.
Prisons -- Texas -- Social conditions.
Prison administration -- Texas -- History.
Prisonniers -- Californie -- Histoire.
Prisons -- Californie -- Conditions sociales.
Prisons -- Administration -- Californie -- Histoire.
Prisonniers -- Texas -- Histoire.
Prisons -- Texas -- Conditions sociales.
Prisons -- Administration -- Texas -- Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
Prison administration
Prisoners
California https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJt8p3GDkhpJkC9y6FY3wC
Texas https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJj8XjVR9hP7dPxwVtRqcP
Strafvollzug
Alltag
Texas
Kalifornien
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Blue, Ethan. Doing time in the depression. New York : New York University Press, ©2012 9780814709405 (DLC) 2011033399 (OCoLC)724667181
ISBN 9780814709412 (electronic bk.)
0814709419 (electronic bk.)
9780814723166 (electronic bk.)
0814723160 (electronic bk.)
9780814709405
0814709400
9781479821358
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Standard No. 10.18574/9780814723166 doi
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AU@ 000054186386
DEBBG BV043134701
DEBBG BV044162732
DEBSZ 39724715X
DEBSZ 421453648
NZ1 14831627
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