Is William Martinez not our brother? : twenty years of the Prison Creative Arts Project / Buzz Alexander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, William, 1938-2019, author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

The new public scholarship series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts in prisons--Michigan.

Arts in prisons.

Prisoners as artists--Michigan.

Prisoners as artists.

Community arts projects--Michigan.

Community arts projects.

Prisoners--Education--Michigan.

Prisoners.

Prison Creative Arts Project--History.

Prison Creative Arts Project.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages ) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Prisons are an invisible, but dominant, part of American society: the United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world. In Michigan, the number of prisoners rose from 3,000 in 1970 to more than 50,000 by 2008, a shift that Buzz Alexander witnessed firsthand when he came to teach at the University of Michigan. Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? describes the University of Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), a pioneering program founded in 1990 that provides university courses, a nonprofit organization, and a national network for incarcerated youth and adults in Michigan juvenile facilities and prisons. By giving incarcerated individuals an opportunity to participate in the arts, PCAP enables them to withstand and often overcome the conditions and culture of prison, the policies of an incarcerating state, and the consequences of mass incarceration.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

Other Format:

Print version:

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access