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

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berger, Dan, 1981- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Series:Justice, power, and politics.
UNC Press law publications.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
Criminal justice & criminology.
Core collection.
Subjects:
African American prisoners > History.
Civil rights movements > United States > History.
United States > Race relations > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.