Rethinking the American prison movement /
Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America's prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings and diverse coalitions with free-worl...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Series: | American social and political movements of the twentieth century.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Roots : challenging prison slavery and political repression, 1865-1940
- Rights : fighting prison Jim Crow, 1940-1968
- Revolution : the prison rebellion years, 1968-1972
- Radicalism : unions, feminism, and the crisis of prison managerialism, 1972-1980
- Retrenchment : mass incarceration and the remaking of the prison movement, 1980-1998
- Conclusion.