America is the Prison: Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970sIn 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 forc |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Cultural Politics of Law and Order | 19 |
George Jackson and the Radical Critique of Incarceration | 51 |
Reform and Repression in Prison Programs | 75 |
Incarcerated Writers and Artists in the Black Arts Movement | 99 |
Entertainment Liberation and the Politics of Prison Theater | 129 |
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