Black Voices From Prison
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Black Voices From Prison
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Author : Etheridge Knight
language : en
Publisher: New York : Pathfinder Press
Release Date : 1970
Black Voices From Prison written by Etheridge Knight and has been published by New York : Pathfinder Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Who Took The Weight
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Little Brown
Release Date : 1972
Who Took The Weight written by and has been published by Little Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with African American prisoners categories.
Inner Lives
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Author : Paula Johnson
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2004-03-01
Inner Lives written by Paula Johnson and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-01 with Law categories.
The rate of women entering prison has increased nearly 400 percent since 1980, with African American women constituting the largest percentage of this population. However, despite their extremely disproportional representation in correctional institutions, little attention has been paid to their experiences within the criminal justice system. Inner Lives provides readers the rare opportunity to intimately connect with African American women prisoners. By presenting the women's stories in their own voices, Paula C. Johnson captures the reality of those who are in the system, and those who are working to help them. Johnson offers a nuanced and compelling portrait of this fastest-growing prison population by blending legal history, ethnography, sociology, and criminology. These striking and vivid narratives are accompanied by equally compelling arguments by Johnson on how to reform our nation's laws and social policies, in order to eradicate existing inequalities. Her thorough and insightful analysis of the historical and legal background of contemporary criminal law doctrine, sentencing theories, and correctional policies sets the stage for understanding the current system.
From The Plantation To The Prison
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Author : Tara T. Green
language : en
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date : 2008
From The Plantation To The Prison written by Tara T. Green and has been published by Mercer University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 cell, his statement may seem to be only a product of his current status. However, history proves his point. Indeed, some of the most well-known and respected black men have served time in jail or prison. Among them are Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, and Frederick Douglass. This book is an examination of the various forms that imprisonment, as asocial, historical, and political experience of African Americans, has taken. Confinement describes the status of individuals who are placed within boundaries-either seen or unseen-but always felt. A word that suggests extensive implications, confinement describes the status of persons who are imprisoned and who are unjustly relegated to a social status that is hostile, rendering them powerless and subject to the rules of the authorities. Arguably, confinement appropriately describes the status of African Americans who have endured spaces of confinement, which include, but are not limited to plantations, Jim Crow societies, and prisons. At specific times, these "spaces of confinement" have been used to oppress African Americans socially, politically, and spiritually. Contributors examine the related experiences of Malcolm X, Bigger Thomas of Native Son, and Angela Davis.
Voices From Prison
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Author : Komanduri Srinivasa Murty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Voices From Prison written by Komanduri Srinivasa Murty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Social Science categories.
In this study, the authors examine the life histories of black male prisoners in the U.S. Federal Prison system, to determine what patterns of behavior or life experiences influenced or precipitated their involvement in criminal behavior. The authors use pre-sentence investigation reports and interviews to provide readers with detailed descriptions of prisoner characteristics.
Voices From The School To Prison Pipeline
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Author : Jr M Ed Ron King
language : en
Publisher: Kings' Press LLC
Release Date : 2018-12-08
Voices From The School To Prison Pipeline written by Jr M Ed Ron King and has been published by Kings' Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-08 with categories.
Are students going from school to prison? Many feel, and the data does not disagree, that African American students in particular are lagging in learning and thus, getting left behind. The real question is: How? And, What do we as a society do about it? I use my life and experience as an educator in high poverty, urban schools predominated by African American students to raise awareness on a pipeline that preys on the innocent. The "Voices" speaking tells all on what society does to harm those found struggling to rise above their circumstances but how schools can change the trajectory of its low-performing culture.
If They Come In The Morning
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Author : Angela Davis
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2016-11-01
If They Come In The Morning written by Angela Davis and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-01 with Social Science categories.
With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America’s most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Angela, and including contributions from numerous radicals and commentators such as Black Panthers George Jackson, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Erica Huggins, this book is not only an account of Davis’s incarceration and the struggles surrounding it, but also perhaps the most comprehensive and thorough analysis of the prison system of the United States and the figure embodied in Davis’s arrest and imprisonment—the political prisoner. Since the book was written, the carceral system in the US has grown from strength to strength, with more of its black population behind bars than ever before. The scathing analysis of the role of prison and the policing of black populations offered by Davis and her comrades in this astonishing volume remains as relevant today as the day it was published.
Belly Song And Other Poems
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Author : Etheridge Knight
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Belly Song And Other Poems written by Etheridge Knight and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with African Americans categories.
Etheridge Knight's first book of poetry, Poems from Prison, was acclaimed by poet Gwendolyn Brooks with the words "This poetry is a major announcement." Since its publication in 1968, Knight's reputation has grown steadily, and he has read his poetry throughout the nation. He has edited a collection of prison writings, Black Voices from Prison. Belly Song has as introduction a moving lettter written just before Knight's release from prison. Some of the poems were written in prison, others after his release, but they all show the increasing power and sensitiveness of his often anquished poetry.
New Thoughts On The Black Arts Movement
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Author : Lisa Gail Collins
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2006-05-16
New Thoughts On The Black Arts Movement written by Lisa Gail Collins and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-16 with Social Science categories.
During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art. This charged chapter in the history of African American culture—which came to be known as the Black Arts Movement—has remained largely neglected by subsequent generations of critics. New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement includes essays that reexamine well-known figures such as Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, Betye Saar, Jeff Donaldson, and Haki Madhubuti. In addition, the anthology expands the scope of the movement by offering essays that explore the racial and sexual politics of the era, links with other period cultural movements, the arts in prison, the role of Black colleges and universities, gender politics and the rise of feminism, color fetishism, photography, music, and more. An invigorating look at a movement that has long begged for reexamination, this collection lucidly interprets the complex debates that surround this tumultuous era and demonstrates that the celebration of this movement need not be separated from its critique.
America Is The Prison
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Author : Lee Bernstein
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2010-06-01
America Is The Prison written by Lee Bernstein and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with Social Science categories.
In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings. Lee Bernstein explores the forces that sparked a dramatic "prison art renaissance," shedding light on how incarcerated people produced powerful works of writing, performance, and visual art. These included everything from George Jackson's revolutionary Soledad Brother to Miguel Pinero's acclaimed off-Broadway play and Hollywood film Short Eyes. An extraordinary range of prison programs--fine arts, theater, secondary education, and prisoner-run programs--allowed the voices of prisoners to influence the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican writers, "New Journalism," and political theater, among the most important aesthetic contributions of the decade. By the 1980s and '90s, prisoners' educational and artistic programs were scaled back or eliminated as the "war on crime" escalated. But by then these prisoners' words had crossed over the wall, helping many Americans to rethink the meaning of the walls themselves and, ultimately, the meaning of the society that produced them.