Forced passages : imprisoned radical intellectuals and the U.S. prison regime /

In Forced Passages, Dylan Rodríguez argues that the cultural production of such imprisoned intellectuals as Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Davis, and Leonard Peltier should be understood as a unique social movement. Dylan Rodríguez traces the lineage of radical prison thought since the 1970s, one formed by...

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Main Author: Rodriguez, Dylan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780816697205
0816697205
9780816645602
0816645604
9780816645619
0816645612
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Domestic war zones and the extremities of power: conceptualizing the U.S. prison regime
  • "You be all the prison writer you wish": the context of radical prison praxis
  • Radical lineages: George Jackson, Angela Davis, and the fascism problematic
  • Articulating war(s): punitive incarceration and state terror amid "no middle ground"
  • "My role is to dig or be dug out": prison standoffs and the logic of death
  • Forced passages: the routes and precedents of (prison) slavery.