The 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, Canada : Kersplebedeb, 2014.
  • ©2014
Description
xi, 110 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-95).
    Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Foreword / by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
    • Introduction
    • North American freedom struggles. Black liberation and settler colonialism ; The American Indian Movement ; Puerto Rican independence ; Chicano liberation
    • Anti-imperialism, anti-authoritarianism, and revolutionary nonviolence. The politics of solidarity ; Militants of the white working class ; Revolutionary nonviolence
    • Earth and animal liberation
    • Déjà vu and the Patriot Act
    • Conclusion : a new beginning
    • Afterword / by dream hampton
    • A bibliographic note
    • Organizational resources
    • About the authors.
    ISBN
    • 9781604869552 ((paperback))
    • 1604869550 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2013956914
    OCLC
    872123652
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