From the Plantation to the Prison: African-American Confinement Literature
(Part of the Voices of the African Diaspora Series)
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According to George Jackson, black men born in the US are conditioned to accept the inevitability of being imprisoned.... "Being born a slave in a captive society and never experiencing any objective basis for expectation had the effect of preparing me for the progressively traumatic misfortune that led so many black men to the prison gate. I was prepared for prison. It required only minor psychic adjustments." As Jackson writes from his prison...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0881460907
ISBN13:9780881460902
Release Date:August 2021
Publisher:Mercer University Press
Length:194 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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