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• Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance ed. by Robert T. Chase
• Carlos Kevin Blanton

Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance, edited by historian Robert T. Chase, is a volume in the University of North Carolina Press's Justice, Power, and Politics series and is the product of a decade of collaboration under the auspices of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. [End Page 117]

Chase pens a smart, useful introduction framing the interpretive and historiographical position of Caging Borders and Carceral States. He leans heavily into Foucault's notion of carceral archipelagos, which are networked regimes of social control. Chase argues that the historical literature on incarceration in the United States centers on the Northeast and ignores the South and West as well as issues of race. Refocusing scholarly attention geographically to the Sunbelt means that this collection "places the history of racial oppression and resistance at the very center" of its interpretive contributions, according to Chase (5). These essays re-envision what might seem disparate kinds of policies—crime, immigration, reproductive rights, voting—as instead interconnected manifestations of an overarching carceral network. As Chase notes, "the historical connections and intersections that these essays uncover might well serve as a crucial link between otherwise isolated people struggling against this system seemingly alone … stranded on their own carceral archipelago" (38). This volume's very act of connecting linked oppressions is itself a kind of resistance.

While space does not permit a full description of the book's fourteen essays, a cursory examination reveals how varied they are. In the first section on the U.S.–Mexican borderlands, Daniel Manuel Hernández examines technology in migrant detention, Ethan Blue provides a fascinating exploration of deportation trains in the early twentieth century, Kelly Lytle Hernández unearths U.S. incarceration policy's impact on the Mexican Revolution, and George T. Díaz crafts an impressive social history of Mexican-origin prisoners in the Blue Ridge State Farm of Fort Bend, Texas. In the second section on southern labor and gender, Talitha L. Le-Flouria powerfully examines the shocking oppression of imprisoned Black women through the denial of their reproductive rights, Pippa Holloway studies the restoration of voting rights to formerly incarcerated women, and Vivien Miller examines Florida's use of prison labor for state roads. In the third section, about the rise of the prison industrial complex, Heather McCarty analyzes California prison gangs in the 1960s, Volker Janssen explores the politics of prison construction and mass incarceration, Keramet Reiter historicizes the origins of supermax prisons, and Donna Murch castigates Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Leadership Council for racist criminal justice policies of the 1990s. In the fourth section, on resistance, Dan Berger provides an excellent account of California prison activist George Jackson, while Douglas Miller intriguingly interprets U.S. incarceration policy toward Native Americans as a form of "Settler Custodialism" (385).

There is little negative to report about Caging Borders and Carceral States, but the lack of a conclusion that concisely consolidates the book's intellectual contributions is unfortunate. And the topical overlap among essays is repetitive. On the whole, however, the collection is strong and holds together. [End Page 118] The essays by Chase, Blue, Kelly Lytle Hernández, Díaz, LeFlouria, McCarty, Berger, and Miller were particularly outstanding. Texas historians should focus on Díaz's essay, a fascinating construction of a prison community that echoes classic slavery studies in its emphasis on cultural resilience and agency amidst extreme physical violence and mental cruelty. Robert T. Chase's Caging Borders and Carceral States is a challenging and intelligent anthology. In this moment of widespread debate over reforming the criminal justice and immigration systems, this work is sorely needed. [End Page 119]

审核人：

• 囚禁边界和监禁状态：监禁、移民拘留和抵抗编辑。罗伯特·T·蔡斯
• 卡洛斯·凯文·布兰顿

Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance由历史学家 Robert T. Chase 编辑，是北卡罗来纳大学出版社的正义、权力和政治系列丛书中的一本书，是南卫理公会大学克莱门茨西南研究中心主持。[第117页结束]

Chase 写了一个聪明、有用的介绍，框架了Caging Borders and Carceral States的解释和历史地位. 他非常倾向于福柯的监狱群岛概念，即社会控制的网络化政权。蔡斯认为，关于美国监禁的历史文献以东北部为中心，而忽略了南部和西部以及种族问题。根据蔡斯 (5) 的说法，将学术注意力从地理上重新聚焦到阳光地带意味着该系列“将种族压迫和抵抗的历史置于其解释性贡献的中心”。这些文章重新设想了看似截然不同的政策——犯罪、移民、生殖权利、投票——而是一个总体监狱网络的相互关联的表现形式。正如蔡斯所说，“

虽然篇幅所限，无法完整描述这本书的 14 篇文章，但粗略地考察一下，就会发现它们是多么的多样化。在关于美墨边境的第一部分中，丹尼尔·曼努埃尔·埃尔南德斯 (Daniel Manuel Hernández) 考察了移民拘留中的技术，伊森·布鲁 (Ethan Blue) 对 20 世纪初的驱逐列车进行了引人入胜的探索，凯利·莱特尔·埃尔南德斯 (Kelly Lytle Hernández) 揭示了美国监禁政策对墨西哥革命的影响，以及乔治T. Díaz 在德克萨斯州本德堡的蓝岭州立农场制作了一段令人印象深刻的墨西哥裔囚犯的社会历史。在关于南方劳工和性别的第二部分中，塔莉莎·L·勒弗洛里亚（Talitha L. Le-Flouria）通过否认她们的生殖权利，有力地审视了被监禁的黑人妇女所遭受的令人震惊的压迫，Pippa Holloway 研究恢复以前被监禁妇女的投票权，而 Vivien Miller 研究佛罗里达州在州道路上使用监狱劳工的情况。在第三部分，关于监狱工业综合体的兴起，Heather McCarty 分析了 1960 年代的加州监狱团伙，Volker Janssen 探索监狱建设和大规模监禁的政治，Keramet Reiter 将超级监狱的起源历史化，Donna Murch 谴责 Bill以及希拉里克林顿和民主党领导委员会对 1990 年代种族主义刑事司法政策的看法。在第四部分，关于抵抗，丹·伯杰对加利福尼亚监狱活动家乔治·杰克逊进行了精彩的描述，而道格拉斯·米勒有趣地将美国对美洲原住民的监禁政策解释为一种“定居者监禁”（385）。

关于Caging Borders 和 Carceral States 的报道几乎没有负面影响，但遗憾的是缺乏一个能够简洁地巩固本书智力贡献的结论。并且论文之间的主题重叠是重复的。然而，总体而言，该系列是强大的，并保持在一起。[第 118 页结束] Chase、Blue、Kelly Lytle Hernández、Díaz、LeFlouria、McCarty、Berger 和 Miller 的文章特别出色。得克萨斯州历史学家应该关注迪亚兹的文章，这是一个监狱社区的迷人建筑，与经典的奴隶制研究相呼应，强调在极端身体暴力和精神虐待中的文化适应力和能动性。罗伯特·T·蔡斯的囚笼边界和监狱状态是一本具有挑战性和智慧的选集。在这个关于改革刑事司法和移民系统的广泛辩论的时刻，这项工作是非常需要的。[第119页结束]