Reshaping Beloved Community: The Experiences of Black Male Felons and Their Impact on Black Radical Traditions - Paperback

by Marlon A. Smith (Author)

Reshaping Beloved Community examines the history of black male incarceration starting in the nineteenth century. This examination highlights how the label felon and the use of the prison was intentionally deployed to recast black men as dangerous and to justify the use of penal structures to systematically erase black radical projects.

Author Biography

Marlon A. Smith is lecturer at the University of Houston.