“An Enormous Amount of Human Waste”: Self-esteem, Capitalism, and the US Prison, 1973-1989
The period between the passage of the Rockefeller drug laws in 1973 and the Reagan-era expansion of the War on Drugs in the late 1980s was characterized by the rise of penal punitiveness and the triumph of neoliberal logics; it was also during these years that the concept of “self-esteem” came to be...
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| Main Author: | Anaïs Lefèvre |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2021-02-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/16181 |
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