Fugitive Thought : Prison Movements, Race, And The Meaning Of Justice /

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In Fugitive Thought, Michael Hames-Garcma argues that writings by prisoners are instances of practical social theory that seek to transform the world. Unlike other authors who have studied prisons or legal theory, Hames-Garcma views prisoners as political and social thinkers whose ideas are as impor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hames-Garcia, Michael Roy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social ethics.
Race discrimination.
Prisoners' writings, American.
Prisoners.
Political prisoners.
Liberty.
Justice, Administration of.
Imprisonment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
freedom.
Prisonniers politiques > États-Unis.
Prisonniers > États-Unis.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
Liberte.
Écrits de prisonniers americains.
Political prisoners > United States.
Prisoners > United States.
Imprisonment > United States.
Justice, Administration of > United States.
Race discrimination > United States.
Social ethics > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Justice, race, and law: Toward a critical theory of justice; In contempt: lawyering out of bounds
  • The practice of freedom and U.S. prison movements: The practice of freedom: Assata's struggle; Resistant freedom: Piri Thomas and Miguel Piñero
  • Rebellion, poetry, and praxis: Toward a praxical moral theory: prison poets and intellectuals
  • Conclusion.

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