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Research interests
Interests: Carceral Studies; Post-1945 U.S.; civil rights law and politics; the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Chicano movements; prisons and policing; labor and working class; public and oral history.
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Writing Beyond the Prison: Reimagining the Carceral Ecosystem with Incarcerated Authors
Scheckel, S. (PI), Chase, R. (CoPI), Miletsky, Z. (CoI) & Perez Melgosa, A. (CoI)
National Endowment for the Humanities
06/1/22 → 07/31/23
Project: Research
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Where angels fear to tread: Racialized policing, mass incarceration and executions as state violence in the post–civil rights era
Chase, R. T., Jan 1 2021, The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History and Violence. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 252-272 21 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Cell taught, self taught: The Chicano Movement behind bars - Urban Chicanos, rural prisons, and the prisoners' rights movement
Chase, R. T., Sep 2015, In: Journal of Urban History. 41, 5, p. 836-861 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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We are not slaves: Rethinking the rise of carceral states through the lens of the prisoners' rights movement
Chase, R. T., Jun 1 2015, In: Journal of American History. 102, 1, p. 73-86 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access38 Scopus citations -
"Slaves of the state" revolt: Southern prison labor and a prison-made civil rights movement, 1945-1980
Chase, R. T., 2012, Life and Labor in the New New South. University Press of Florida, p. 177-213 37 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
11 Scopus citations