Contributors. Hishaam Aidi, Dhoruba Bin Wahad (Richard Moore), Marilyn Buck, Marshall Eddie Conway, Susie Day, Daniel Defert, Madeleine Dwertman, Michel Foucault, Carol Gilbert, Sirene Harb, Rose Heyer, George Jackson, Joy James, Manning Marable, William F. Pinar, Oscar Lopez Rivera, Dylan Rodriguez, Jared Sexton, Catherine voen Bulow, Laura Whitehorn, Frank B. Wilderson III
Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy
Paperback
Publication Date: 20/07/2007
The United States has more than two million people locked away in federal, state, and local prisons. Although most of the U.S. population is non-Hispanic and white, the vast majority of the incarcerated-and policed-is not. In this compelling collection, scholars, activists, and current and former prisoners examine the sensibilities that enable a penal democracy to thrive. Some pieces are new to this volume; others are classic critiques of U.S. state power. Through biography, diary entries, and criticism, the contributors collectively assert that the United States wages war against enemies abroad and against its own people at home.Contributors consider the interning or policing of citizens of color, the activism of radicals, structural racism, destruction and death in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, and the FBI Counterintelligence Program designed to quash domestic dissent. Among the first-person accounts are an interview with Dhoruba Bin Wahad, a Black Panther and former political prisoner; a portrayal of life in prison by a Plowshares nun jailed for her antinuclear and antiwar activism; a discussion of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement by one of its members, now serving a seventy-year prison sentence for sedition; and an excerpt from a 1970 letter by the Black Panther George Jackson chronicling the abuses of inmates in California's Soledad Prison. Warfare in the American Homeland also includes the first English translation of an excerpt from a pamphlet by Michel Foucault and others. They argue that the 1971 shooting of George Jackson by prison guards was a murder premeditated in response to human-rights and justice organizing by black and brown prisoners and their supporters.
Contributors. Hishaam Aidi, Dhoruba Bin Wahad (Richard Moore), Marilyn Buck, Marshall Eddie Conway, Susie Day, Daniel Defert, Madeleine Dwertman, Michel Foucault, Carol Gilbert, Sirene Harb, Rose Heyer, George Jackson, Joy James, Manning Marable, William F. Pinar, Oscar Lopez Rivera, Dylan Rodriguez, Jared Sexton, Catherine voen Bulow, Laura Whitehorn, Frank B. Wilderson III
Contributors. Hishaam Aidi, Dhoruba Bin Wahad (Richard Moore), Marilyn Buck, Marshall Eddie Conway, Susie Day, Daniel Defert, Madeleine Dwertman, Michel Foucault, Carol Gilbert, Sirene Harb, Rose Heyer, George Jackson, Joy James, Manning Marable, William F. Pinar, Oscar Lopez Rivera, Dylan Rodriguez, Jared Sexton, Catherine voen Bulow, Laura Whitehorn, Frank B. Wilderson III
- ISBN:
- 9780822339236
- 9780822339236
- Category:
- Prisons
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 20-07-2007
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Duke University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 376
- Dimensions (mm):
- 235x156x23mm
- Weight:
- 0.57kg
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