Overview of Are Prisons Obsolete?: Prison; Ideology; Philosophy; Cultural Criticism; Foucault; Abolition; Race; Social Movements; Angela Davis; Navayana Book

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Yvonne Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she notes, American life is replete with abolition movements and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly, the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions and made such practices untenable. Angela Davis swings a wrecking ball into the racist and sexist underpinnings of the American prison system. Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman, US.

• Book Type :

Political Structure & Processes

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

128 pages

• ISBN - 10 :

8189059432

• Are Prisons Obsolete?: Prison; Ideology; Philosophy; Cultural Criticism; Foucault; Abolition; Race; Social Movements; Angela Davis; Navayana Published On :

2011

• Resource:

Politics, Political Structure & Processes Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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