Captive Nation : Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era /

In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Berger, Dan, 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, NC : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Edición:1 edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race relations.
Civil rights movements.
African American prisoners.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Prisonniers noirs americains > Histoire.
Civil rights movements > United States > History.
African American prisoners > History.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
United States > Race relations > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • The jailhouse in freedom land
  • America means prison
  • George Jackson and the Black condition made visible
  • The pedagogy of the prison
  • Slavery and race-making on trial
  • Prison nation
  • Epilogue: choosing freedom
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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