Deborah E. McDowell, Director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute and Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of "The Changing Same": Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory. Claudrena N. Harold, Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia, is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918-1942. Juan Battle, Professor of Sociology, Public Health, and Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center, is coeditor of Free at Last? Black America in the Twenty-First Century.
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"Bringing together some of the best new work in four different areas of 'carceral studies'- history, sociology, politics, and culture-McDowell, Harold, and Battle integrate the emerging historiography of prisons with the new sociology of punishment. A comprehensive and highly original summation of the state of the field of carceral studies today." - Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University, author of Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South