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Investigates how a political system aimed at managing ethnic communities in the larger material context of the colonial urban project was first imagined and tested through the physical segregation of the colonial prison. This book demonstrates the way in which racial politics were inscribed spatially in the division of penal facilities.

Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes A Penal

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      Publisher University of Hawai'i Press
      Published 2/28/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780824833541
      978-0824833541
      ISBN-10 0824833546
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      Asian history Criminal justice law

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Investigates how a political system aimed at managing ethnic communities in the larger material context of the colonial urban project was first imagined and tested through the physical segregation of the colonial prison. This book demonstrates the way in which racial politics were inscribed spatially in the division of penal facilities.

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