Reuben Jonathan Miller, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
| Published date | 01 July 2023 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/14624745221138967 |
| Author | Susila Gurusami |
| Date | 01 July 2023 |
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Fergus McNeill
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Reuben Jonathan Miller, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife
of Mass Incarceration, Little Brown and Company: New York, 2021;
352 pp. ISBN 0316451517, $29.00 (hbk)
Whether you are in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, or in any place shaped by Black life—
which 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)
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