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Captive nation : Black prison organizing in the civil rights era /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berger, Dan, 1981-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Edition:First Edition.
Series:Justice, power, and politics.
Subjects:
African American prisoners > History.
Civil rights movements > United States > History.
United States > Race relations > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • The jailhouse in freedom land
  • America means prison
  • George Jackson and the Black condition made visible
  • The pedagogy of the prison
  • Slavery and race-making on trial
  • Prison nation
  • Epilogue: choosing freedom
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.