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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Autor principal: Bernstein, Lee (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, NC University of North Carolina Press c2010
En:Año: 2010
Acceso en línea: Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag)
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Palabras clave:
Arts > Political aspects > History > 20th century > United States
Arts > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century
Arts, American > 20th century
Arts and society > History > 20th century > United States
Arts and society > United States > History > 20th century
Prisoners as artists > United States
USA > Justizvollzugsanstalt > Literatur > Politische Literatur > Kunst > Geschichte 1970-1980
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Sumario: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
Notas:Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-214) and index
Descripción Física:XI, 224 S Ill 23 cm
ISBN:9780807833872
9780807871171