Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
(Part of the Justice, Power, and Politics Series)
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In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression while arguing that confinement was an inescapable part of black life in the United States. Black prisoners became global political icons at a time when...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469629798
ISBN13:9781469629797
Release Date:March 2016
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:424 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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