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Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era (Justice, Power, and Politics)
Captive Nation Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era - Justice, Power, and Politics
Author: Dan Berger
In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression while arguing that confinement was an inescapab...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781469618241
ISBN-10: 1469618249
Publication Date: 11/14/2014
Pages: 416
Edition: 1
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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