Damien M. Sojoyner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of First Strike: Prison and Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles and Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums.
In Against the Carceral Archive, Damien Sojoyner shows how antiblack state violence creates its own archive as it permeates the modern processes of city planning, institution building, and law-and-order. Scholars, teachers, and researchers of all kinds will be activated and intellectually emboldened by this book's deep demystifications of police power, juridical violence, and carceral domestic warfare.---Dylan Rodriguez, author of White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide