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Author Alexander, William, 1938-2019.

Title Is William Martinez not our brother? : twenty years of the Prison Creative Arts Project / Buzz Alexander
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press : University of Michigan Library, [2010]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series The new public scholarship series
New public scholarship.
Contents The beginning -- Is William Martinez not our brother? -- The University courses -- The Workshops -- A Matter of Language -- This is our bridge ... and we built it ourselves : The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners -- Is the Scapegoat Not Our Brother? -- The Prison Creative Arts Project : crafted out of newspaper, modge podge, paint, and glitter -- Failure -- The PCAP Associates : places like Rwanda
Summary Prisons are an invisible, but dominant, part of American society: the United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world. In Michigan, the number of prisoners rose from 3,000 in 1970 to more than 50,000 by 2008, a shift that Buzz Alexander witnessed firsthand when he came to teach at the University of Michigan. Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? describes the University of Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), a pioneering program founded in 1990 that provides university courses, a nonprofit organization, and a national network for incarcerated youth and adults in Michigan juvenile facilities and prisons. By giving incarcerated individuals an opportunity to participate in the arts, PCAP enables them to withstand and often overcome the conditions and culture of prison, the policies of an incarcerating state, and the consequences of mass incarceration. -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Prison Creative Arts Project -- History
SUBJECT Prison Creative Arts Project fast
Subject Arts in prisons -- Michigan
Prisoners as artists -- Michigan
Community arts projects -- Michigan
Prisoners -- Education -- Michigan
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- Arts & Humanities.
Arts in prisons
Community arts projects
Prisoners as artists
Prisoners -- Education
Michigan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020706923
ISBN 9780472027446
0472027441
9780472900374
0472900374
9781282882973
128288297X