5 Top nonfiction books like Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment by Jessica T. Simes

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Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment

By: Jessica T. Simes

4.30

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Punishing Places applies a unique spatial analysis to mass incarceration in the United States. It d…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment by Jessica T. Simes , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Illusion of Free Markets

By: Bernard E. Harcourt

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

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2. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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3. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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4. Carceral Capitalism

By: Jackie Wang

4.61

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, pre… read more

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"In other words, their [police] survival and expansion becomes bound up with their capacity to use the police power and the court system to loot residents."

-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

"The conversion of poverty into a personal moral failure was intimately tied to the construction of black Americans as disposable and subject to mass incarceration."

-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

"As Iyko Day notes, Native dispossession occurs through the expropriation of land, while black dispossession is characterized by enslavement and bodily dispossession."

-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

"The financialization of municipalities, the loss of key tax revenue streams, deindustrialization, and capital flight are the causes of the fiscal crisis—not reckless public spending."

-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

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5. Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment

By: Jessica T. Simes

4.30

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Punishing Places applies a unique spatial analysis to mass incarceration in the United States. It d… read more

Similar categories in Jessica T. Simes's Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment book and Jessica T. Simes's Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment

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21 Top audiobook books like Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

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4.37

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Timothy Egan

4.38

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4.05

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