Right to Be Hostile

Gwen Stowers, Associate Professor at National University"Yes, there is a place for this book, especially with the connections to the media and public policy formation. I believe the book makes an original contribution particularly with the analysis of the Oz program [part of sample chapter]. It is important to show step by step how the public is manipulated.The material is timely and since these ideas are still not commonly know, the shelf life would be fairly long. . . . I recommend this book for publication."Garret Albert Duncan, Associate Professor of Education, African and African-American Studies, and American Culture Studies, Washington University in St. Louis"Right to Be Hostile is definitely a publishable project. Keep in mind that I have only had acces to the proposed book’s outline, a reference list, and Chapter 3. At the same time, I have no dpubt that the rest of the book is similarly grounded in solid scholarship and that Meiners will continue her wonderful job of rendering a hotely controversial subject and some rather dense ideas in ways to make them accessible to a broad audience, within and outside the academy."

• 1. Surveillance, Ladies Bountiful, and the Management of Outlaw Emotions 2. Strange Fruit: Prison Expansion, Deindustrialization and What Counts as an Educational Issue 3. Life After OZ: Policies, Popular Cultures, and Public Enemies 4. Awful Acts and the Trouble with Normal 5. Political Recoveries: "Softening" Selves, Hard Experiences, and Organized Resistance 6. Horizons of Abolition: Strategizing For Change through The Good, The Bad and The Innocent