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Imprisoned intellectuals : America's political prisoners write on life, liberation, and rebellion / edited by Joy James.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Transformative politics series
- [Transformative politics series]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners--United States--Biography.
- Prisoners.
- Political prisoners.
- United States.
- Political prisoners--United States--Biography.
- Intellectuals--United States--Biography.
- Intellectuals.
- Government, Resistance to--United States.
- Government, Resistance to.
- Political crimes and offenses--United States.
- Political crimes and offenses.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 373 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]
- Summary:
- These essays, by writer-activists incarcerated because of their political beliefs and acts, offer some controversial and thought-provoking theories of contemporary social change and liberation movements.
- Contents:
- Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X
- Political prisoners, prisons, and Black liberation / Angela Y. Davis
- Prison, where is thy victory? / Huey P. Newton
- Towards the United Front / George Jackson
- COINTELPRO and the destruction of Black leaders and organizations / Dhoruba bin Wahad
- Religion and revolution / Jalil Muntaquim
- July 4th address / Assata Shakur
- Coming of age : a Black revolutionary / Safiya Bukhari
- An updated history of the new Afrikan prison struggle / Sundiata Acoli
- Anarchism and the Black revolution / Lorenzo Komboa Ervin
- Intellectuals and the gallows / Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Genocide waged against the Black nation / Mutulu Shakur ... [et al.]
- The struggle for status under international law / Marilyn Buck
- White North American political prisoners / Rita Bo Brown
- On trial / Raymond Luc Levasseur
- Letter to the Weathermen / Rev. Daniel Berrigan
- Maternal convictions / Michele Naar-Obed
- An interview with lesbian political prisoners
- This is enough! / Jose Solis Jordan
- Art of liberation : a vision of freedom / Elizam Escobar
- Violence and the state / Standing Deer
- Inipi : sweat lodge / Leonard Peltier.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-356) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742520269
- 0742520277
- OCLC:
- 50630493
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