Title: Prison power
Description: "In the Black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource as activists developed tactics and ideology to counter white supremacy. As a site for both political and personal transformation, Lisa Corrigan underscores how imprisonment shaped movement leaders by influencing their political analysis and organizational strategies. Prison became the critical space for the transformation from civil rights to Black Power, especially as southern civil rights activists faced setbacks in achieving equality. Corrigan fills gaps between Black Power historiography and prison studies by scrutinizing the rhetorical forms and strategies of the Black Power ideology that arose from prison politics. These discourses demonstrate how Black Power activism shifted its tactics to regenerate, even after the FBI sought to disrupt, discredit, and destroy the movement"--
Subjects: Politics and government, Race relations, Civil rights, Imprisonment, Civil rights movements, Black power, African American men, African Americans, Effect of imprisonment on, History, African americans, civil rights, Civil rights movements, united states, African americans, politics and government, United states, race relations, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Political aspects
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century