Struggle within [electronic resource] : prisons, political prisoners, and mass movements in the United States / by Dan Berger.
An accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years. Berger examines some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century: black liberation, Puerto Rican in...
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Language: | English |
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Oakland, CA :
PM Press,
2014.
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Variant Title: |
Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
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An accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years. Berger examines some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century: black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native American sovereignty, Chicano radicalism, white antiracist and working-class mobilizations, pacifist and antinuclear campaigns, and earth liberation and animal rights. Berger's encyclopedic knowledge of American social movements provides a rich comparative history of numerous social movements that continue to shape contemporary politics. The book also offers a little-heard voice in contemporary critiques of mass incarceration. Rather than seeing the issue of America's prison growth as stemming solely from the war on drugs, Berger locates mass incarceration within a slew of social movements that have provided steep challenges to state power. -- taken from publisher website |
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Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographic references (pages 89-95). |
ISBN: | 9781604869811 (online) 9781629630113 (online) |