Warfare in the American Homeland
Subtitle: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy
Contributors: Black Classic Press (Contributor); Hisham Aidi (Contributor); Jonah House Community (Contributor); Laura Whitehorn (Contributor); Marilyn Black (Contributor); Marshall Eddie Conway (Contributor); Natsu Saito (Contributor); Oscar Lopez Rivera (Contributor); Rose Heyer (Contributor); Sirene Harb (Contributor); Ward Churchill (Contributor); Joy James (Editor)
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: June 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780822339090
Subjects: Area / regional studies; Crime & criminology; Political science & theory; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Discrimination & Racism; Penology; ACTIVISM; American Studies; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Imprisonment; Prisoners; Prisons; United States
Description: The United States has more than two million people locked away in federal, state, and local prisons. Although most of the U.S. population is non-Hispanic and white, the vast majority of the incarcerated—and policed—is not. Through biography, diary entries, and criticism, the contributors collectively assert that the United States wages war against enemies abroad and against its own people at home. [from publisher description].
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Violations / Joy James --; title: The prison slave as hegemony's (silent) scandal / Frank B. Wilderson III --; title: Forced passages / Dylan Rodriguez --; title: Sorrow : the good soldier and the good woman / Joy James --; title: War within : a prison interview / Dhoruba Bin Wahad --; title: Domestic warfare : a dialogue / Marshall Eddie Conway --; title: Soledad brother/Blood in my eye (excerpts) / George Jackson --; title: The masked assassination / Michel Foucault, Catherine von Bulow, Daniel Defert --; title: A century of colonialism : one hundred years of Puerto Rican resistance / Oscar Lopez Rivera --; title: Racial profiling and the societies of control / Jared Sexton --; title: Jihadis in the hood : race, urban Islam, and the war on terror / Hishaam Aidi --; title: The effects of repression on women in prison / Marilyn Buck --; title: Ponderings from the eternal now / Carol Gilbert --; title: Resisting the ordinary / Laura Whitehorn (with Susie Day) --; title: Cultures of torture / William F. Pinar --; title: Katrina's unnatural disaster : a tragedy of black suffering and white denial / Manning Marable