Against equality prisons will not protect you

"Prisons will not protect you critically analyzes the prison industrial complex and the inequality and violence perpetuated by hate crime legislation. This archival anthology provides the history of this legislative panacea and interrogates the gay community's unquestioned loyalty to the p...

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Other Authors: Conrad, Ryan, 1983-, Spade, Dean 1977- (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Lewiston, ME: Against Equality Pub., c2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Their laws will never make us safer /
  • Dean Spade
  • A compilation of critiques on hate crime legislation /
  • Jason Lydon for Black & Pink
  • SRLP opposes the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act /
  • Sylvia Rivera Law Project
  • Do hate crime laws do any good? /
  • Liliana Segura
  • Sanesha Stewart, Lawrence King, and why hate crime legislation won't help /
  • Jack Aponte
  • Why hate crime legislation is still not a solution /
  • Yasmin Nair
  • Lesbians sentenced for self-defense: all-white jury convicts black women /
  • Imani Keith Henry
  • First coffins, now prison? /
  • Sebastien Barraud for PolitiQ-queers solidaires!
  • The Devil in Gay, Inc.: how the gay establishment ignored a sex panic fueled by homophobia /
  • James D'Entremont
  • "Worst of the worst"? Queer investments in challenging sex offender registries /
  • Erica Meiners, Liam Michaud, Josh Pavan, Bridget Simpson.