Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm
Reihe: Justice, Power, and Politics
Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm
Reihe: Justice, Power, and Politics
ISBN: 978-1-4696-5357-0
Verlag: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PR
Drawing from three decades of legal documents compiled by prisoners, Robert T. Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within. Prisoners forged an alliance with the NAACP to contest the constitutionality of Texas prisons. Behind bars, a prisoner coalition of Chicano Movement and Black Power organizations publicized their deplorable conditions as "slaves of the state" and initiated a prison-made civil rights revolution and labor protest movement. Told from the vantage point of the prisoners themselves, this book highlights untold but devastatingly important truths about the histories of labor, civil rights, and politics in the United States.
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- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
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