The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Studies in Postwar American Political Development)
Naomi Murakawa’s The First Civil Right examines how postwar liberal politics contributed to the making of prison America. Framing incarceration within American political development, the book explores the relationship between civil rights, crime policy, and the growth of the modern prison system.
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The First Civil Right explores the relationship between liberal politics and the development of the American prison system.
Naomi Murakawa places prison policy within the broader context of postwar American political development.
The book examines how ideas about civil rights, crime, and governance shaped the growth of what it calls “prison America.”
It offers a historically grounded analysis of the political forces behind modern incarceration.
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