America is the prison
Subtitle: arts and politics in prison in the 1970s
By: Lee Bernstein.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780807833872; 9780807871171
Subjects: Prisoners as artists -- United States; Arts, American -- 20th century; Arts -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Arts and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: We shall have order: the cultural politics of law and order; title: The age of Jackson: George Jackson and the radical critique of incarceration; title: What works? reform and repression in prison programs; title: We took the weight: incarcerated writers and artists in the Black Arts movement; title: Cell block theater: entertainment, liberation, and the politics of prison theater; title: Radical chic: Jack Henry Abbott and the decline of prison programming.