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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Glossary
- One Introduction: The Causes and Consequences of the Prison Boom
- Two Have You Seen My Backyard? Rural Ecology, Disrepute, and Prison Placement
- Three “It’s Like the City, Only Quieter”: Making the Rural Ghetto
- Four Finding Beauty in the Hideous: Prison Placement as Reputation Management
- Five How Not in My Backyard Became Please in My Backyard: Toward a Model of Prison Placement
- Six The Prison in My Backyard: Reconsidering Impact
- Seven The Tarnished Jewel of the Delta: Continuity and Change in Caste, Class, and Disrepute
- Eight Bringing Down the Big House: The Political Economy of Prison Proliferation
- Acknowledgments
- Methodological Appendix A The Multiple Imagined Positionalities of the Black Scholar in the Deep South
- Methodological Appendix B Research Design
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Source:
- Big House on the Prairie
- Author(s):
John M. Eason
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Glossary
- One Introduction: The Causes and Consequences of the Prison Boom
- Two Have You Seen My Backyard? Rural Ecology, Disrepute, and Prison Placement
- Three “It’s Like the City, Only Quieter”: Making the Rural Ghetto
- Four Finding Beauty in the Hideous: Prison Placement as Reputation Management
- Five How Not in My Backyard Became Please in My Backyard: Toward a Model of Prison Placement
- Six The Prison in My Backyard: Reconsidering Impact
- Seven The Tarnished Jewel of the Delta: Continuity and Change in Caste, Class, and Disrepute
- Eight Bringing Down the Big House: The Political Economy of Prison Proliferation
- Acknowledgments
- Methodological Appendix A The Multiple Imagined Positionalities of the Black Scholar in the Deep South
- Methodological Appendix B Research Design
- Works Cited
- Index
