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Texas Tough

Robert Perkinson
Texas Tough Book PDF

Author : Robert Perkinson
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429952776

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A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolution In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history of American imprisonment from the days of slavery to the present, shows how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric became the national template. Drawing on convict accounts, official records, and interviews with prisoners, guards, and lawmakers, historian Robert Perkinson reveals the Southern roots of our present-day prison colossus. While conventional histories emphasize the North's rehabilitative approach, he shows how the retributive and profit-driven regime of the South ultimately triumphed. Most provocatively, he argues that just as convict leasing and segregation emerged in response to Reconstruction, so today's mass incarceration, with its vast racial disparities, must be seen as a backlash against civil rights. Illuminating for the first time the origins of America's prison juggernaut, Texas Tough points toward a more just and humane future.

Texas Tough

Janice Maynard
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Author : Janice Maynard
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488070631

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When a city girl meets a Lone Star lover, can she resist temptation? Find out in this Texas Cattleman’s Club: Heir Apparent novel by USA TODAY bestselling author Janice Maynard. He's the kind of cowboy even big-city women dream about… The only reason artsy Abby Carmichael is way out in Royal, Texas, is to shoot a documentary film. But to get it right, she needs a cowboy. And fifth-generation Texas Cattleman’s Club member Carter Crane is it. His slow drawl, blue eyes and swagger say he’s the real deal… Their sparks ignite like wildfire. But when her work reveals big-money secrets that could bring down Royal, Abby must choose between the film that could make her career or riding into the sunset with Carter… From Harlequin Desire: Luxury, scandal, desire—welcome to the lives of the American elite. Love triumphs in these uplifting romances, part of the Texas Cattleman's Club: Heir Apparent series: Book 1: Back in the Texan's Bed by Naima Simone Book 2: At the Rancher's Pleasure by Joss Wood Book 3: Blue Collar Billionaire by Karen Booth Book 4: The Trouble with Bad Boys by Katherine Garbera Book 5: Texas Tough by Janice Maynard Book 6: Trapped with the Texan by Joanne Rock Book 7: How to Catch a Bad Boy by Cat Schield Book 8: Bidding on a Texan by Barbara Dunlop

Texas Tough

Janet Dailey
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Author : Janet Dailey
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758293985

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A rancher must fight to protect his family—and the heiress he loves—in this romance from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Calder Saga. He’s everything she doesn’t need. The quiet horse whisperer whose touch still ignites her dreams—and is everything wealthy Lauren Prescott is not. She can think of a million reasons why she should never ever fall into Sky Fletcher's sure embrace again. Until she clashes head-on with the dangerous complications of her privileged life and needs his protection like air to breathe… She's more than he can resist. The heiress Sky can't get out of his heart, no matter how much he tries. And being the secret third Tyler son doesn't change a thing. All he wants from his two brothers is help uncovering a dangerous conspiracy threatening his land, their ranch, and the spirited beauty he never should have touched…. Praise for the Tylers of Texas series "Big, bold, and sexy, Texas True is Janet Dailey at her best!”—Kat Martin “Dailey does the genre proud with plenty of intrigue, subplots, twists and, of course, love. Fans and newcomers alike will revel in the ride.”—Publishers Weekly on Texas Tall

Reshaping Beloved Community

Marlon A. Smith
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Author : Marlon A. Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498569347

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Reshaping Beloved Community by Marlon A. Smith Pdf

Reshaping Beloved Community: The Experiences of Black Male Felons and Their Impact on Black Radical Traditions offers a reflexive interrogation on the history of black male incarceration in the United States starting in the nineteenth century to both illustrate the complex ways black male felons have been discursively constructed and the various techniques utilized in the United States to erase the contributions of black male felons and their black radical projects. This erasure has left many black men without the benefit of fellowship and community. Therefore, Reshaping Beloved Community focuses on particular black male felons and their cultural production to highlight experiences of blackness that is often marginalized or ignored. In order to characterize these experiences and contributions of black male felons, Reshaping Beloved Community expands Victor Anderson’s definition of creative exchange by offering contemplative conversations of black male felons in history and the cultural works they produced. It draws on an interdisciplinary approach to reveal how some black male felons have used prison and the experience of incarceration to craft narratives and liberation movements. The philosophical approach within Reshaping Beloved Community deploys constructive and innovative concepts, particularly of the grotesque, to interpret how black male felons have resisted American political and cultural restraints on their humanity. Anderson’s concepts of creative exchange help create a framework that enables readers to see how the cultural production of black male felons reveals the unique experiences and worldview of black men trapped in various forms of penal captivity. These experiences speak to a deeper reality that is largely hidden because of the ways incarceration and penal captivity diminishes certain people in society. Yet a reengagement with those movements helps to link black male felons to the whole of black life and culture. In the end, Reshaping Beloved Community allows black radical scholars to gain deeper insight into the roles black male felons have played in critiquing American politics and culture. Moreover, it shows that the cultural productions of black male felons are just as important to understanding black life in American society as slave narratives, blues music, and the like.

The Texanist

David Courtney,Jack Unruh
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Author : David Courtney,Jack Unruh
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781477312971

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The Texanist by David Courtney,Jack Unruh Pdf

A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.

Tough Customer

Sandra Brown
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Author : Sandra Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982177126

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Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.

The Years that Matter Most

Paul Tough
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Author : Paul Tough
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : EDUCATION
ISBN : 0544944488

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The bestselling author of How Children Succeed returns with a devastatingly powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher education in the U.S.

Texas Tough

Janice Maynard
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Author : Janice Maynard
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781867233299

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He's the kind of cowboy even big-city women dream about… The only reason artsy Abby Carmichael is way out in Royal, Texas, is to shoot a documentary film. But to get it right, she needs a cowboy. And fifth-generation Texas Cattleman’s Club member Carter Crane is it. His slow drawl, blue eyes and swagger say he’s the real deal…and their sparks ignite like wildfire. But when her work reveals big-money secrets that could bring down Royal, Abby must choose between the film that could make her career or riding into the sunset with Carter… Mills & Boon Desire — Luxury, scandal, desire — welcome to the lives of the elite.

Cowboy Tough

Joanne Kennedy
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Author : Joanne Kennedy
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402265549

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Cowboy Tough by Joanne Kennedy Pdf

She's hardly a cowgirl... Cat Crendall left a successful advertising job in New York to teach art workshops in the wild west. The Boyd Ranch is hardly her dream destination, but if the outing's a success, the company will send her to more exotic locations. But once a cowboy... Mack Boyd was in the middle of the best bronc-riding season of his life when his mother asked for help with an artists' retreat at the ranch. Mack might be able to ride a wild stallion to a standstill but he can't say no to his family. Cat and Mack are complete opposites...but when the ranch is threatened financially, can they set aside their differences and work together?

Tougher in Texas

Kari Lynn Dell
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Author : Kari Lynn Dell
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781492632016

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Tougher in Texas by Kari Lynn Dell Pdf

"Dell takes you on a fun, wild ride!" —B.J. DANIELS, New York Times Bestselling Author He's got five rules And she's aiming to break them all Rodeo producer Cole Jacobs has his hands full running Jacobs Livestock. He can't afford to lose a single cowboy, so when Cousin Violet offers to send along a more-than-capable replacement, he's got no choice but to accept. He expects a grizzled Texas good ol' boy. He gets Shawnee Pickett. Wild and outspoken, ruthlessly self-reliant, Shawnee's not looking for anything but a good time. It doesn't matter how quickly the tall, dark and intense cowboy gets under her skin—Cole deserves something real, and Shawnee can't promise him forever. Life's got a way of kicking her in the teeth, and she's got her bags packed before tragedy can knock her down. Too bad Cole's not the type to give up when the going gets tough... Texas Rodeo Series: Reckless in Texas (Book 1) Tangled in Texas (Book 2) Tougher in Texas (Book 3) Fearless in Texas (Book 4) Mistletoe in Texas (Book 5) What People Are Saying about the Texas Rodeo series: "Look out, world! There's a new cowboy in town." —CAROLYN BROWN, New York Times Bestselling Author "An extraordinarily gifted writer."—KAREN TEMPLETON, author of Wed in the West series "Real Ranches. Real Rodeo. Real Romance."—LAURA DRAKE, author of Sweet on a Cowboy series "A sexy, engaging romance set in the captivating world of rodeo."—Kirkus "Illuminating...a standout in western romance."—Publishers Weekly

As Their Natural Resources Fail

Frank Tough
As Their Natural Resources Fail Book PDF

Author : Frank Tough
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774842150

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In conventional histories of the Canadian prairies, Native people disappear from view after the Riel Rebellions. In this groundbreaking study, Frank Tough examines the role of Native peoples, both Indian and Metis, in the economy of northern Manitoba from Treaty 1 to the Depression. He argues that they did not become economically obsolete but rather played an important role in the transitional era between the mercantile fur trade and the emerging industrial economy of the mid-twentieth century.

The Punitive Turn

Deborah E. McDowell,Claudrena N. Harold,Juan Battle
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Author : Deborah E. McDowell,Claudrena N. Harold,Juan Battle
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813935218

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The Punitive Turn by Deborah E. McDowell,Claudrena N. Harold,Juan Battle Pdf

The Punitive Turn explores the historical, political, economic, and sociocultural roots of mass incarceration, as well as its collateral costs and consequences. Giving significant attention to the exacting toll that incarceration takes on inmates, their families, their communities, and society at large, the volume’s contributors investigate the causes of the unbridled expansion of incarceration in the United States. Experts from multiple scholarly disciplines offer fresh research on race and inequality in the criminal justice system and the effects of mass incarceration on minority groups' economic situation and political inclusion. In addition, practitioners and activists from the Sentencing Project, the Virginia Organizing Project, and the Restorative Community Foundation, among others, discuss race and imprisonment from the perspective of those working directly in the field. Employing a multidisciplinary approach, the essays included in the volume provide an unprecedented range of perspectives on the growth and racial dimensions of incarceration in the United States and generate critical questions not simply about the penal system but also about the inner workings, failings, and future of American democracy. Contributors: Ethan Blue (University of Western Australia) * Mary Ellen Curtin (American University) * Harold Folley (Virginia Organizing Project) * Eddie Harris (Children Youth and Family Services) * Anna R. Haskins (University of Wisconsin–Madison) * Cheryl D. Hicks (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) * Charles E. Lewis Jr. (Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy) * Marc Mauer (The Sentencing Project) * Anoop Mirpuri (Portland State University) * Christopher Muller (Harvard University) * Marlon B. Ross (University of Virginia) * Jim Shea (Community Organizer) * Jonathan Simon (University of California–Berkeley) * Heather Ann Thompson (Temple University) * Debbie Walker (The Female Perspective) * Christopher Wildeman (Yale University) * Interviews by Jared Brown (University of Virginia) & Tshepo Morongwa Chéry (University of Texas–Austin)

Death in Custody

Roger A. Mitchell Jr.,Jay D. Aronson
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Author : Roger A. Mitchell Jr.,Jay D. Aronson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781421447094

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Death in Custody by Roger A. Mitchell Jr.,Jay D. Aronson Pdf

The United States significantly undercounts the number of people who die in law enforcement custody each year. How can we fix this? Deaths resulting from interactions with the US criminal legal system are a public health emergency, but the scope of this issue is intentionally ignored by the very systems that are supposed to be tracking these fatalities. We don't know how many people die in custody each year, whether in an encounter with police on the street, during transport, or while in jails, prisons, or detention centers. In order to make a real difference and address this human rights problem, researchers and policy makers need reliable data. In Death in Custody, Roger A. Mitchell Jr., MD, and Jay D. Aronson, PhD, share the stories of individuals who died in custody and chronicle the efforts of activists and journalists to uncover the true scope of deaths in custody. From Ida B. Wells's enumeration of extrajudicial lynchings more than a century ago to the Washington Post's current effort to count police shootings, the work of journalists and independent groups has always been more reliable than the state's official reports. Through historical analysis, Mitchell and Aronson demonstrate how government at all levels has intentionally avoided reporting death in custody data. Mitchell and Aronson outline a practical, achievable system for accurately recording and investigating these deaths. They argue for a straightforward public health solution: adding a simple checkbox to the US Standard Death Certificate that would create an objective way of recording whether a death occurred in custody. They also propose the development of national standards for investigating deaths in custody and the creation of independent regional and federal custodial death review panels. These tangible solutions would allow us to see the full scope of the problem and give us the chance to truly address it.

Doing Time in the Depression

Ethan Blue
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Author : Ethan Blue
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479821358

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Doing Time in the Depression by Ethan Blue Pdf

As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat.Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working people from around the country and around the world—overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately non-white, and displaced by economic crisis.Ethan Blue paints a vivid portrait of everyday life inside Texas and California's penal systems. Each element of prison life—from numbing boredom to hard labor, from meager pleasure in popular culture to crushing pain from illness or violence—demonstrated a contest between keepers and the kept. In this richly layered account, Blue compellingly argues that punishment in California and Texas played a critical role in producing a distinctive set of class, race, and gender identities in the 1930s, some of which reinforced the social hierarchies and ideologies of New Deal America, and others of which undercut and troubled the established social order. He reveals the underside of the modern state in two very different prison systems, and the making of grim institutions whose power would only grow across the century.

Bring Judgment Day

Sheila Curran Bernard
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Author : Sheila Curran Bernard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009117265

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Bring Judgment Day by Sheila Curran Bernard Pdf

Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889–1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous – as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the South's most brutal prisons, while his immense talent twice won him pardons. But, as this deeply researched book shows, these stories were shaped by the white folklorists who 'discovered' Lead Belly and, along with reporters, recording executives, and radio and film producers, introduced him to audiences beyond the South. Through a revelatory examination of arrest, trial, and prison records; sharecropping reports; oral histories; newspaper articles; and more, author Sheila Curran Bernard replaces myth with fact, offering a stunning indictment of systemic racism in the Jim Crow era of the United States and the power of narrative to erase and distort the past.