Drawing on interviews conducted throughout New York City, Black feminist criminologist Janet Garcia-Hallett shares the traditionally silenced voices of formerly incarcerated mothers of color. Patriarchy, misogyny, and systemic racism marginalize and criminalize these mothers, pushing them into the grasp of penal control and exacerbating their racialized and gendered oppression after incarceration. Invisible Mothers exposes the difficult realities that African American, West Indian, and Latina mothers experience when reentering the community after incarceration and navigating motherhood. Armed with critical insight, Invisible Mothers demonstrates the paradox of visibility: social institutions treat mothers of color as invisible, restricting them from equal opportunities, and simultaneously as hypervisible, penalizing them for the ways they survive their marginalization. Though forme
Invisible Mothers Unseen Yet Hypervisible after Incarceration
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"This book is filled with the voices and understandings of marginalized mothers, and we come to see how their invisibility and hypervisibility delineate their lives and their experiences as mothers after incarceration."—Michelle Hughes Miller, coeditor of Bad Mothers: Regulations, Representations, and Resistance"An extremely valuable window into a particularly marginalized group, one that is often left out of criminal justice–reform conversations. Few books examine criminalized women's experiences with such a wide-angle lens."—Allison McKim, author of Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration
"With rich, powerful narratives and analysis, Invisible Mothers exposes the mechanisms of oppression and hypersurveillance that produce unrelenting obstacles for formerly incarcerated African American, West Indian, and Latina mothers."—Hillary Potter, author of Intersectionality and Criminology: Disrupting and Revolutionizing Studies of Crime