Reuben Jonathan Miller, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

Abstract

Whether you are in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, or in any place shaped by Black lifewhich is to say everywhere-you will find what Reuben J. Miller (2021: 74) characterizes in Halfway Home as "the afterlife of slavery, which is to say it is the afterlife of mass incarceration." This thread-the afterlife of slavery as the afterlife of mass incarceration -invokes and evokes the work of Black feminist scholar Saidiya Hartman's (2007)