Friday, January 3, 2:30–4:30 p.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

36. Post-Emancipation Unfreedom: Race, Labor, and Media in American Cultures of Punishment

Hilton, Boulevard Room B

Chair: Eileen Boris, University of California at Santa Barbara

Papers: Radio, Rodeo, Newspaper, and Baseball: The Politics of Mass Culture in Welfare State Prisons
Ethan Blue, University of Texas at Austin

"She would be better off in the south": Working-Class Black Women and Their Families' Response to New York State's Use of Southern Parole, 1920–35
Cheryl D. Hicks, Williams College

An Institution of Labor: Chino Prison, 1941–65
Volker Janssen, University of California at San Diego

Comment: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, University of California at Berkeley

   

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