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Author McKay, Tasseli, 1978- author.

Title Stolen wealth, hidden power : the case for reparations for mass incarceration / Tasseli McKay.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  365.973 MCKAY    Check Shelf
Description xii, 297 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Disremembered and unaccounted for : a legacy of (forgetting) harm -- "Institutionalized" : the hyper-regulation of childhood challenges -- "More than a shell" : perpetual imprisonment -- "I always put the burden on her shoulders" : The invisible weight of mass incarceration -- "They needed me there" -- "Systematic deconstruction" -- Dreaming an America beyond mass incarceration.
Summary "Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power contends that the deep economic inequality and racial disparities that Americans take for granted have been quietly held in place by the four-decade campaign of racialized state violence known as mass incarceration. Tasseli McKay presents detailed evidence that the steep direct costs of mass-scale imprisonment are far overshadowed by its hidden costs and harms, many of which have been kept out of sight by women's invisible labor. Finding that the economic value of the damages to Black individuals, families, and communities totals $7.13 trillion--a sum equivalent to 85 percent of the current Black-White household wealth gap--McKay points to the urgency and feasibility of reparation and to the possibilities that lie beyond it"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject African Americans -- Effect of imprisonment on.
Reparations for historical injustices -- United States.
Imprisonment -- United States.
Imprisonment. (OCoLC)fst00968277
Reparations for historical injustices. (OCoLC)fst01732564
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other Form: Online version: McKay, Tasseli, 1978- Stolen wealth, hidden power Oakland : University of California Press, [2022] 9780520389472 (DLC) 2021060595
ISBN 9780520389441 hardcover
0520389441 hardcover
9780520389465 paperback
0520389468 paperback
9780520389472 electronic book
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