Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-century U.S. Literature and Film by Peter Caster

Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-century U.S. Literature and Film

Peter Caster

296 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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A prison official in 1888 declared that it was the freeing of slaves that actually created prisons: "we had to establish means for their control. Hence came the penitentiary." Such rampant racism co ntributed to the criminalization of black mascul...

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