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

Author
Berger, Dan, 1981- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Oakland, CA : PM Press ; Montreal, Quebec : Kersplebedeb, 2014.
  • ©2014
Description
1 online resource (xi, 110 pages) : illustrations

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Summary note
"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"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-95).
Source of description
Print version record.
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.
ISBN
  • 9781629630113 ((electronic bk.))
  • 162963011X ((electronic bk.))
  • 1306452880 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781306452885 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781604869811 ((electronic bk.))
  • 160486981X ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
873841477
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