Imprisoned Intellectuals

America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion
Herausgeber: James, Joy

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 569g
• ISBN-13: 9780742520271
• ISBN-10: 0742520277
• Artikelnr.: 21711470

Autorenporträt

Joy James is a professor in the Africana Studies Department at Brown University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Prologue: "A New Declaration of Independence"
Chapter 3 Introduction
Part 4 I. Black Liberationists
Chapter 5 1. "Letter from Birmingham Jail" Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chapter 6 2. "The Ballot or the Bullet" Malcolm X
Chapter 7 3. "Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation" Angela Y.
Davis
Chapter 8 4. "Prison, Where is Thy Victory" Huey P. Newton
Chapter 9 5. "Towards the United Front" George Jackson
Chapter 10 6. "COINTELPRO and the Destruction of Black Leaders and
Organizations" (Abridged) Dhoruba bin Wahad
Chapter 11 7. "On the Black Liberation Army" (Abridged) Jalil Muntaquim
Chapter 12 8. "July 4th Address" Assata Shakur
Chapter 13 9. "Coming of Age: A Black Revolutionary" Safiya Bukhari
Chapter 14 10. "An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle"
(Abridged) Sundiata Acoli
Chapter 15 11. "Anarchism and the Black Revolution" (Abridged) Lorenzo
Komboa Ervin
Chapter 16 12. "Intellectuals and the Gallows" Mumia Abu-Jamal
Part 17 II. Internationalists and Anti-Imperialists
Chapter 18 13. "Genocide Waged Against the Black Nation" Mutulu Shakur,
Anthony Bradshaw, Malik Dinguswa, Terry D. Long, Mark Cook, Adolfo Matos,
and James Haskins
Chapter 19 14. "The Struggle for Status Under International Law" Marilyn
Buck
Chapter 20 15. "White North American Political Prisoners" Rita Bo Brown
Chapter 21 16. "On Trial" (Abridged) Raymond Luc Levasseur
Chapter 22 17. "Letter to the Weathermen" Daniel J. Berrigan, S.J.
Chapter 23 18. "Maternal Convictions: A Mother Beats a Missile into a
Plowshare" (Abridged) Michele Naar-Obed
Chapter 24 19. "Dykes and Fags Want to Know: Interview with Lesbian
Political Prisoners" (with QUISP)" Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg, and Laura
Whitehorn
Chapter 25 20. "This Is Enough!" Jose Solis Jordan
Chapter 26 21. "Art of Liberation: A Vision of Freedom" Elizam Escobar
Chapter 27 22. "Violence and the State" Standing Deer
Chapter 28 23. "Inipi: Sweat Lodge" Leonard Peltier
Chapter 29 Epilogue: "Incommunicado: Dispatches From a Political Prisoner"
A Poem by Marilyn Buck
Chapter 30 Appendix: Internet Sites