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Challenging the prison-industrial complex : activism, arts, and educational alternatives / edited by Stephen John Hartnett.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prison-industrial complex--United States.
- Prison-industrial complex.
- Imprisonment--United States.
- Imprisonment.
- United States.
- Prisons--United States.
- Prisons.
- Physical Description:
- x, 291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Building an abolition democracy; or, the fight against public fear, private benefits, and prison expansion / Erica R. Meiners
- Poem. Another day in the Champaign County Jail / Dennis Mansker
- Militarizing the police : Officer Jon Burge, torture, and war in the "urban jungle" / Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
- Poem. Gotta be careful where ya plant ya feet / Marvin Mays
- Killing democracy; or, how the drug war drives the prison-industrial complex / Daniel Mark Larson
- Poem. Another day / Erika Baro
- Teaching you to love fear : television news and racial stereotypes in a punishing democracy / Travis L. Dixon
- Poem. In search of salvation / William T. Smith
- Diagnosing the schools-to-prisons pipeline : maximum security, minimum learning / Rose Braz and Myesha Williams
- A piece of the reply : the Prison Creative Arts Project and practicing resistance / Buzz Alexander
- Poem. The poet's corner / George Hall
- Each one reach one : playwriting and community activism as redemption and prevention / Robin Sohnen
- Poem. Devil talks / Robert "Chicago" McCollum
- Fostering cultures of achievement in urban schools : how to work toward the abolition of the schools-to-prisons pipeline / Garrett Albert Duncan
- Poem. January 3, 2009 / Nicole Monahan
- Humanizing education behind bars : Shakespeare and the theater of empowerment / Jonathan Shailor
- Poem. Anger / Kenneth Sean Kelly
- Breaking down the walls : inside-out learning and the pedagogy of transformation / Lori Pompa.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780252035821
- 0252035828
- 9780252077708
- 0252077709
- OCLC:
- 601331462
- Publisher Number:
- 99942632661
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