Struggle within [electronic resource] : prisons, political prisoners, and mass movements in the United States / by Dan Berger.

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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 in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berger, Dan
Language:English
Published: Oakland, CA : PM Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Imprisonment > Political aspects > United States.
Political prisoners > United States > History.
Prisoners > United States.
Prisons > United States.
Social movements > United States > History.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2014 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2014 (EBSCO)
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2014 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword / by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
  • Introduction
  • Ch. 1. North American freedom struggles. Black liberation and settler colonialism
  • The American Indian Movement
  • Puerto Rican independence
  • Chicano liberation
  • Ch. 2. Anti-imperialism, anti-authoritarianism, and revolutionary nonviolence. The politics of solidarity
  • Militants of the white working class
  • Revolutionary nonviolence
  • Ch. 3. Earth and animal liberation
  • Ch. 4. Déjà vu and the Patriot Act
  • Conclusion : a new beginning
  • Afterword / by dream hampton
  • A bibliographic note
  • Organizational resources
  • About the authors.