James Warfare in the American Homeland

Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8974-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 370 Seiten

A collection of writings by prisoners and scholars that documents the extension of the violence and the repression of the prison establishment into the larger society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

James, Joy

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wilderson III, Frank B.

Rodriguez, Dylan

Waha, Dhoruba Bin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: The American Archipelago ix

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction: Violations / Joy James 3

I. Insurgent Knowledge

1. The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal / Frank B. Wilderson III 23

2. Forced Passages / Dylan Rodriguez 35

3. Sorrow: The Good Soldier and the Good Women / Joy James 58

4. War Within: A Prison Interview / Dhoruba Bin Waha 76

5. Domestic Warfare: A Dialogue / Marshall Eddie Conway 98

6. Soledad Brother and Blood in My Eye / George Jackson 122

7. The Masked Assassination / Michel Foucault, Catherine Von Bulow, Daniel Defert, Translation and Introduction by Sirene Harb 140

8. A Century of Colonialism: One Hundred Years of Puerto Rican Resistance / Oscar Lopez Rivera 161

II. Policing and Prison Technologies

9. Racial Profiling and the Societies of Control / Jared Sexton 197

10. Jihadis in the Hood: Race, Urban Islam, and the War on Terror / Hishaam Aidi 219

11. The Effects of Repression on Women in Prison / Marilyn Buck 238

12. Ponderings from the Eternal Now / Carol Gilbert, O.P. 250

13. Resisting the Ordinary / Laura Whitehorn with Susie Day 273

14. Cultures of torture / William F. Pinar 290

15. Katrina’s Unusual Disaster: A Tragedy of Black Suffering and White Denial / Manning Marable 305

Bibliography 315

Contributors 333

Permissions 337

Index 339

Über Autor(innen)

Joy James is John B. and John T. McCoy Presidential Professor of Africana Studies and College Professor in Political Science at Williams College. She is the author of Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics and Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture and the editor of The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings and Imprisoned Intellectuals: America’s Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion.