Part I: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Prison. 1. The Prisoner Exchange: The Underside of Civil Rights --
2 Prison: A Sign of US Democracy? --
Part II: Slavery and the US Prison: Genealogical Connections. 3. From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison: Frederick Douglass and the Convict Lease System --
4. From the Convict Lease System to the Super-Max Prison --
Part III: Disarticulating Crime and Punishment: Emerging Abolitionist Frameworks. 5. Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry --
6. Changing Attitudes toward Crime and Punishment --
7 Public Imprisonment and Private Violence: Reflections on the Hidden Punishment of Women --
Part IV: Rethinking Incarceration: Identifying the Prison Industrial Complex. 8. Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex --
9. Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex: California and Beyond --
Part V: Incarcerated Women: The Netherlands, the United States, and Cuba. 10. Women in Prison: Researching Race in Three National Contexts / with Kum-Kum Bhavani --
11. Incarcerated Women: Transformative Strategies / with Kum-Kum Bhavani --
12. Fighting for Her Future: Reflections on Human Rights and Women's Prisons in the Netherlands / with Kum-Kum Bhavani.