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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Dan BergerPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.620kg ISBN: 9781469629797ISBN 10: 1469629798 Pages: 424 Publication Date: 30 March 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsDan Berger's analysis offers an opportunity to consider the ways that incarcerated African Americans, primarily during the 1970s, insisted that we consider the ways that prisons implicated state power in the production of racial inequality.--The Black Scholar Helps connect the broader scholarship on black freedom struggles with a largely taken for granted segment of the activist population, prisoners.--Journal of Social History An important history. --Truthout Captive Nation is a bold reconsideration of the role of prisons and African-American prisoners spanning the southern Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s, Black Power and the New Left, and the Black Nationalist renaissance of the 1970s.--Against the Current Finally affords the civil rights era the attention it deserves as a critical point on the historical arc of race and incarceration in America.--The Sixties A provocative and compelling history of black activism in the US prison system. --CHOICE Demonstrates convincingly that historians in diverse areas and fields must reckon with [incarceration as a] defining feature of American life.--American Historical Review [An] impressive account of black prison activism.--Public Books Berger undoubtedly achieves his overarching goal: to tell the story of the 'multifaceted rebellions that occurred in and through America's prisons.'--Punishment and Society Thanks to Dan Berger's illuminating book . . . we can no longer tell the history of the black freedom struggle--and the 20th-century United States more broadly--without taking into account the organizing tradition inside prisons.--Elizabeth Hinton, The Nation Multidimensional analysis that takes into account feminist, queer, and multiethnic lenses.--Journal of American History [An] impressive account of black prison activism.-- Public Books A provocative and compelling history of black activism in the US prison system. -- CHOICE Author InformationDan Berger is assistant professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington Bothell, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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