Cassi Meyerhoffer is an associate professor of sociology at Southern Connecticut State University and the editor of Race: Identity, Ideology, and Inequality. Brittany Leigh Rodriguez is a Latinx woman currently working as the director of Scholar Success at Hartford Youth Scholars, a non-profit, college-access organization located in Hartford, CT.
A significant contribution to the study of racial and ethnic relations, Imprisoned will greatly assist readers in understanding the complexity of race relations in the United States. It also demonstrates that U.S. policing reform would need to consider entanglements with historically labeling black bodies as ‘criminal’ and the practice of segregating and patrolling black bodies very differently than any other racial and ethnic group in America."" - Cameron D. Lippard, coeditor of Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality ""Imprisoned makes an important contribution to the sociological literature on race and ethnicity, the criminal justice system, urban sociology, and racial residential segregation."" - Rachelle J. Brunn-Bevel, coeditor of Intersectionality and Higher Education