 | Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism Subjects: Suffrage -- United States; Prisoners -- Suffrage -- United States; Political rights Loss of -- United States; Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States; Punishment -- United States; Citizenship -- United States; Race -- Political; This book gives a theoretical and historical account of felon disenfranchisement, showing deep connections between punishment and citizenship practices in the United States. These connections are deployed quietly and yet perniciously as part of a political system of white supremacy, shaping contemporary regimes of punishment and governance. Dilts Andrew : Andrew Dilts is assistant professor of political theory in the Department of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism (Fordham University Press, 2014). He has also published scholarly articles in Political Theory, Foucault Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, New Political Science, PhiloSOPHIA, and The Carceral Notebooks. He is currently at work on a study of Michel Foucault's thought in relation to neoliberal economic theories of subjectivity, prison abolition, critical race theory, and queer theory. |
