Marlon A. Smith is lecturer at the University of Houston.

• Introduction Chapter 1 Slave and Free: The Mapping of Race, Religion, and Punishment in the New World Chapter 2 The Construction of Nineteenth Century Black Prison Radicals: An Address to Non-Reflexive Interpretations Chapter 3 A Challenge to Black Heroic Images: Huddie Ledbetter and the Politics of a Black Male Felon Chapter 4 20th Century Black Radical Prison Intellectuals: Malcolm X, George Jackson, and the Expansion of Nineteenth Century Black Prison Praxis Chapter 5 Prison Prophets: Twenty First Century Black Male Felons on Race, Religion and Mass Incarceration Chapter 6Expanding the Beloved Community: Black Church, Black Felons and Mass Incarceration Conclusion Where Do We Go From Here: Gender, Education and SexualityBibliographyAbout the Author

Marlon Smith provides a necessary critique of the black felon experience in a carceral state where slavery remains constitutionally mandated within the structure of the 13th Amendment. This brilliant collection of experienced thought serves as a necessary evolution from Alexander’s New Jim Crow to a development of the deconstruction of those ritualistic sacrifices at the altar of justice.

Marlon A. Smith is lecturer at the University of Houston.

• Introduction Chapter 1 Slave and Free: The Mapping of Race, Religion, and Punishment in the New World Chapter 2 The Construction of Nineteenth Century Black Prison Radicals: An Address to Non-Reflexive Interpretations Chapter 3 A Challenge to Black Heroic Images: Huddie Ledbetter and the Politics of a Black Male Felon Chapter 4 20th Century Black Radical Prison Intellectuals: Malcolm X, George Jackson, and the Expansion of Nineteenth Century Black Prison Praxis Chapter 5 Prison Prophets: Twenty First Century Black Male Felons on Race, Religion and Mass Incarceration Chapter 6Expanding the Beloved Community: Black Church, Black Felons and Mass Incarceration Conclusion Where Do We Go From Here: Gender, Education and SexualityBibliographyAbout the Author

Marlon Smith provides a necessary critique of the black felon experience in a carceral state where slavery remains constitutionally mandated within the structure of the 13th Amendment. This brilliant collection of experienced thought serves as a necessary evolution from Alexander’s New Jim Crow to a development of the deconstruction of those ritualistic sacrifices at the altar of justice.

Marlon A. Smith is lecturer at the University of Houston.

• Introduction Chapter 1 Slave and Free: The Mapping of Race, Religion, and Punishment in the New World Chapter 2 The Construction of Nineteenth Century Black Prison Radicals: An Address to Non-Reflexive Interpretations Chapter 3 A Challenge to Black Heroic Images: Huddie Ledbetter and the Politics of a Black Male Felon Chapter 4 20th Century Black Radical Prison Intellectuals: Malcolm X, George Jackson, and the Expansion of Nineteenth Century Black Prison Praxis Chapter 5 Prison Prophets: Twenty First Century Black Male Felons on Race, Religion and Mass Incarceration Chapter 6Expanding the Beloved Community: Black Church, Black Felons and Mass Incarceration Conclusion Where Do We Go From Here: Gender, Education and SexualityBibliographyAbout the Author

Marlon Smith provides a necessary critique of the black felon experience in a carceral state where slavery remains constitutionally mandated within the structure of the 13th Amendment. This brilliant collection of experienced thought serves as a necessary evolution from Alexander’s New Jim Crow to a development of the deconstruction of those ritualistic sacrifices at the altar of justice.