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Imprisoned intellectuals : America's political prisoners write on life, liberation, and rebellion / edited by Joy James.

Van Pelt Library HV9468 .I49 2003
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
James, Joy, 1958-
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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