Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals And the U.S. Prison RegimeU of Minnesota Press - 322 pagini More than two million people are currently imprisoned in the United States, and the nation’s incarceration rate is now the highest in the world. The dramatic rise and consolidation of America’s prison system has devastated lives and communities. But it has also transformed prisons into primary sites of radical political discourse and resistance as they have become home to a growing number of writers, activists, poets, educators, and other intellectuals who offer radical critiques of American society both within and beyond the prison walls. In Forced Passages, Dylan Rodríguez argues that the cultural production of such imprisoned intellectuals as Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Davis, Leonard Peltier, George Jackson, José Solis Jordan, Ramsey Muniz, Viet Mike Ngo, and Marilyn Buck should be understood as a social and intellectual movement in and of itself, unique in context and substance. Rodríguez engages with a wide range of texts, including correspondence, memoirs, essays, poetry, communiqués, visual art, and legal writing, drawing on published works by widely recognized figures and by individuals outside the public’s field of political vision or concern. Throughout, Rodríguez focuses on the conditions under which imprisoned intellectuals live and work, and he explores how incarceration shapes the ways in which insurgent knowledge is created, disseminated, and received. More than a series of close readings of prison literature, Forced Passages identifies and traces the discrete lineage of radical prison thought since the 1970s, one formed by the logic of state violence and by the endemic racism of the criminal justice system. Dylan Rodríguez is assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside. |
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... movement, evolved in character and deeds, who is held in confinement for support of, or identity with, a people ... movements, or specific counter- and antistate uprisings that 4– INTRODUCTION.
... movement, evolved in character and deeds, who is held in confinement for support of, or identity with, a people ... movements, or specific counter- and antistate uprisings that 4– INTRODUCTION.
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... movements or free-world–based organizations, the unrecognized imprisoned activist is interpellated by the political influence and mentorship of her or his peers and predecessors (including political prisoners and POWs duly “recognized ...
... movements or free-world–based organizations, the unrecognized imprisoned activist is interpellated by the political influence and mentorship of her or his peers and predecessors (including political prisoners and POWs duly “recognized ...
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... movement related , activity related , ideologi- cally related , in the sense that . . . these people were engaged in political activity . But I also have learned over thirty - some years of being in jail that a lot of people become ...
... movement related , activity related , ideologi- cally related , in the sense that . . . these people were engaged in political activity . But I also have learned over thirty - some years of being in jail that a lot of people become ...
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... movement against colonial oppression . The evident rhetoric of oppositionality , of the subaltern " good " that necessarily materializes " evil " in the eyes of domination , offers a stunning departure from the language of negotiation ...
... movement against colonial oppression . The evident rhetoric of oppositionality , of the subaltern " good " that necessarily materializes " evil " in the eyes of domination , offers a stunning departure from the language of negotiation ...
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... movements to institutionalize politics through conservative organizational forms, Buck articulates a form of political commitment that foreshadows a new—though histori- cally rooted—political language: There is always room to debate ...
... movements to institutionalize politics through conservative organizational forms, Buck articulates a form of political commitment that foreshadows a new—though histori- cally rooted—political language: There is always room to debate ...
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Conceptualizing the US Prison Regime | 39 |
The Context of Radical Prison Praxis | 75 |
George Jackson Angela Davis and the Fascism Problematic | 113 |
Punitive Incarceration and State Terror amid No Middle Ground | 145 |
Prison Standoffs and the Logic of Death | 185 |
The Routes and Precedents of Prison Slavery | 223 |
Acknowledgments | 257 |
Notes | 261 |
Prison Activism and Support Resources | 303 |
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