Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (782 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1496814878 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 210 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Imprisoned activists developed tactics and ideology to counter white supremacy. Rap Brown, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Assata Shakur, Corrigan conducts rhetorical analyses of these extremely popular though understudied accounts of the Black Power movement. 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. 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 early sit-in movement. In the black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged as a key rhetorical, th
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
Chávez, associate professor of Mexican American and Latino/a studies, University of Texas–Austin and author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities“In Prison Power Lisa Corrigan has done a superb job of outlining the interplay between incarceration and the Black Power movement. Corrigan analyzes the writings of three significant writers, H. Through her careful and nuanced readings of the autobiographical prison writings of black revolutionaries, Corrigan shows us how such writings offered crucial resources for the development of black identities, political analysis, and critique of the prison-industrial complex. 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, vernacular language, and writing