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1 online resource |
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SUNY series, philosophy and race |
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SUNY series, philosophy and race.
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| Contents |
Intro -- The New Abolitionists -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Pancho Aguila: Folsom, August 11th: A Question of Races -- Joy James: Introduction: Democracy and Captivity -- I. Penal Democracy -- 1. Dachine Rainer and Holley Cantine -- Prison Etiquette -- 2. Bernard Phillips -- Notes on the Prison Community -- 3. Jalil Muntaqim -- The Criminalization of Poverty in Capitalist America (Abridged) -- 4. Bill Dunne -- Control Unit Prisons: Deceit and Folly in Modern Dungeons -- 5. Raymond Luc Levasseur -- Trouble Coming Every Day: ADX-The First Year -- 6. Paul St. John |
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Behind the Mirror's Face -- 7. Tiyo Attallah Salah-El -- A Call for the Abolition of Prisons -- II. Gendered Captivity -- 8. Assata Shakur -- Women in Prison: How We Are -- 9. Susan Rosenberg -- Women Casualties of the Drug War -- 10. Angela Y. Davis -- Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves (Abridged) -- 11. Prince Imari A. Obadele (Shemuel ben-Yahweh) -- Killers -- 12. Ed Mead -- Men Against Sexism -- III. Revolt -- 13. Little Rock Reed -- The American Indian in the White Man's Prisons: A Story of Genocide -- 14. Imari Abubakari Obadele I |
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A People's Revolt for Power and an Up-Turn in the Black Condition: An Appeal and a Challenge -- 15. Prince Imari A. Obadele (Shemuel ben-Yahweh) -- To My Baby's Children -- 16. Antonio Fernandez (King Tone) -- King Tone's Diary -- 17. Yaki (James Sayles) -- Let's "Gang-Up" on Oppression: Youth Organizations and the Struggle for Power in Oppressed Communities -- 18. Mumia Abu-Jamal -- A Life Lived, Deliberately -- IV. Dialogues in Resistance (Interviews) |
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19. Charles Baxter, Wayne Brown, Tony Chatman- Bey, H. B. Johnson Jr., Mark Medley, Donald Thompson, Selvyn Tillett, and John Woodland Jr. (with Drew Leder) -- Live from the Panopticon: Architecture and Power Revisited -- 20. Angela Y. Davis -- On Prisons and Prisoners (with Leslie DiBenedetto) -- 21. George Jackson (with Karen Wald) -- An Interview with George Jackson -- 22. Geronimo ji Jaga (Elmer Pratt) (with Heike Kleffner) -- The Black Panthers: An Interview with Geronimo ji Jaga Pratt -- 23. Viet Mike Ngo (with Dylan RodrÃguez) |
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"You Have to be Intimate with Your Despair": A Conversation with Viet Mike Ngo (San Quentin State Prison, E21895) -- 24. Marilyn Buck and Laura Whitehorn (with Susie Day) -- Cruel But Not Unusual- The Punishment of Women in U.S. Prisons -- 25. Shaka Sankofa (Gary Graham) (with Larvester Gaither) -- An Interview with Shaka Sankofa (Gary Graham) -- 26. Alan Berkman -- Engaged in Life: Alan Berkman on Prison Health Care (as told to Susie Day) -- 27. Philip Berrigan (with Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill) -- "It's Too Bad the Soil Couldn't Cry Out from the Blood Shed Upon It" |
| Summary |
"This collection of essays and interviews provides a frank look at the nature and purposes of prisons in the United States from the perspective of the prisoners. Written by Native American, African American, Latino, Asian, and European American prisoners, the book examines captivity and democracy, the racial "other," gender and violence, and the stigma of a suspect humanity. Contributors include those incarcerated for social and political acts, such as conscientious objection, antiwar activism, black liberation, and gang activities. Among those interviewed are Philip Berrigan, Marilyn Buck, Angela Y. Davis, George Jackson, and Laura Whitehorn."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 14, 2022) |
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Prisoners' writings, American.
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Prisoners -- United States -- Social conditions
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Prisoners -- United States -- Biography
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Prisoners
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Prisoners -- Social conditions
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Prisoners' writings, American
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Gefangenenliteratur
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
James, Joy, 1958- editor, writer of introduction.
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| ISBN |
9780791483107 |
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079148310X |
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