America Is the Prison : Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s /

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Bernstein explores the forces that sparked a dramatic "prison art renaissance" in the 1970s, when incarcerated people produced powerful works of writing, performance, and visual art. An extraordinary range of prison programs--fine arts, theater, secondary education, and prisoner-run progra...

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Main Author: Bernstein, Lee, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Prisoners as artists.
Arts > Political aspects.
Arts and society.
Arts, American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
ART > American > General.
Arts et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Arts > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Arts americains > 20e siecle.
Artistes prisonniers > États-Unis.
Arts and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Arts > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Arts, American > 20th century.
Prisoners as artists > United States.
United States.
History
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • We shall have order : the cultural politics of law and order
  • The age of Jackson : George Jackson and the radical critique of incarceration
  • What works? : reform and repression in prison programs
  • We took the weight : incarcerated writers and artists in the Black Arts movement
  • Cell block theater : entertainment, liberation, and the politics of prison theater
  • Radical chic : Jack Henry Abbott and the decline of prison programming
  • Conclusion.

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