Episode 22 | Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation

On this episode of Left of Black, Sociologist John M. Eason joins host Mark Anthony Neal in the Left of Black studio at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University to discuss his book

Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation (University of Chicago Press). Eason is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University. Professor Eason’s Big House on the Prairie, noted sociologist Mary Pattillo writes, “Big House on the Prairie is a masterful, sensitive, and theoretically complex study of the politics of prison building in a southern town dealing with the quadruple stigma of rurality, race, region, and poverty.’”