America is the prison: arts and politics in prison in the 1970s

We shall have order: the cultural politics of law and order -- The age of Jackson: George Jackson and the radical critique of incarceration -- What works? reform and repression in prison programs -- We took the weight: incarcerated writers and artists in the Black Arts movement -- Cell block theater...

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Main Author: Bernstein, Lee 1967- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, NC University of North Carolina Press c2010
In:Year: 2010
Online Access: Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag)
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Availability in Tübingen:Present in Tübingen.
UB: KB 20 A 4433
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Keywords:
Prisoners as artists > United States
Arts, American > 20th century
Arts > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century
Arts and society > United States > History > 20th century
Arts > Political aspects > History > 20th century > United States
Arts and society > History > 20th century > United States
USA > Justizvollzugsanstalt > Literatur > Politische Literatur > Kunst > Geschichte 1970-1980
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Summary:We shall have order: the cultural politics of law and order -- The age of Jackson: George Jackson and the radical critique of incarceration -- What works? reform and repression in prison programs -- We took the weight: incarcerated writers and artists in the Black Arts movement -- Cell block theater: entertainment, liberation, and the politics of prison theater -- Radical chic: Jack Henry Abbott and the decline of prison programming
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-214) and index
Physical Description:XI, 224 S, Ill, 23 cm
ISBN:9780807833872
9780807871171