Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (807 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1496814878 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 210 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Corrigan underscores how imprisonmenta site for both political and personal transformationshaped movement leaders by influencing their political analysis and organizational strategies. In the black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource. Imprisoned activists developed tactics and ideology to counter white supremacy. She introduces the notion of the “Black Power vernacular” as a term for the prison memoirists’ rhetorical innovations, to explain how the movement adapted to an increasingly hostile environment in both the Johnson and Nixon administrations.Through prison writings, these activists deployed narrative features supporting certain tenets of Black Power, pride in blackness, disavowal of nonviolence, identification with the Third World, and identity strategies focused on black masculinity. These discourses demonstrate how Black Power activism shifted its tactics to regenerate, even after the FBI sought to disrupt, discredit, and destroy the movement.. Lisa M. Prison became the critical space for the transformation from civil rights to Black Power, especially as southern civil rights activists faced setbacks.Black Power activists produced autobiographical writings, essays, and letters about and from prison beginning with the e
Lisa M. . Corrigan, Fayetteville, Arkansas, is an associate professor of communication, director of the gender studies program, and affiliate faculty in African and African American studies and in Latin American studies at the University of Arkansas
Rap Brown, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Assata Shakur, detailing how their writings construct Black Power in ways that undermine the credibility of the prison-industrial complex and make Black Power relevant today. Jensen, emeritus professor of communication, University of Nevada–Las Vegas and coauthor of The Rhetoric of Agitation and Control and The Words of César Chávez. Corrigan shows the critical role that prisons and imprisonment have historically played in black liberation struggles and how the actors in those struggles have understood prison and used it to build movements. “Many locate the massive expansion of the prison-industrial complex and the criminalization of black and brown communities in the policies of the Reagan administration. Her excellent study provides insights into the state of society in the United States in 2016 as well as in the 1960s, and it should be read by those interested in the civil rights movement, social protest, vernac
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