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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... offer this book from within a troubled relation to this American social formation, across its multiple geographies and histories, as a Pinoy scholar-activist who is both a direct descendant and vexed inheritor of 1 the legacies of U.S. ...
... offer this book from within a troubled relation to this American social formation, across its multiple geographies and histories, as a Pinoy scholar-activist who is both a direct descendant and vexed inheritor of 1 the legacies of U.S. ...
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... offers an extended meditation on—and crit- ical engagement with—a lineage of praxis that awakens the constitutive antagonism between (1) technologies of bodily immobilization and pro- grammatic violence that enact through the particular ...
... offers an extended meditation on—and crit- ical engagement with—a lineage of praxis that awakens the constitutive antagonism between (1) technologies of bodily immobilization and pro- grammatic violence that enact through the particular ...
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... offer a redefi- nition of the " political prisoner ” that accounts for the shape of the post- 1970s political landscape . His response proves instructive as a framework for conceptualizing the current condition . 6 The seminar had been ...
... offer a redefi- nition of the " political prisoner ” that accounts for the shape of the post- 1970s political landscape . His response proves instructive as a framework for conceptualizing the current condition . 6 The seminar had been ...
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... offers a stunning departure from the language of negotiation , dialogue , progress , moderation , and peace that has become hegemonic in dis- courses of social change and social justice , in and outside the United States . The native's ...
... offers a stunning departure from the language of negotiation , dialogue , progress , moderation , and peace that has become hegemonic in dis- courses of social change and social justice , in and outside the United States . The native's ...
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... offers powerful tes- timony from the Dublin (California) women's prison in her 2000 article “Prisons, Social Control, and Political Prisoners.”9 Arguing against the tendency of progressive and radical social movements to ...
... offers powerful tes- timony from the Dublin (California) women's prison in her 2000 article “Prisons, Social Control, and Political Prisoners.”9 Arguing against the tendency of progressive and radical social movements to ...
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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 |
305 | |
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