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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464373803321

Titolo

Challenging the prison-industrial complex [[electronic resource] ] : activism, arts, and educational alternatives / / edited by Stephen John Hartnett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2011

ISBN

1-282-95959-X

9786612959592

0-252-09016-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HartnettStephen J

Disciplina

365.973

Soggetti

Prison-industrial complex - United States

Imprisonment - United States

Prisons - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Building an abolition democracy; or, the fight against public fear, private benefits, and prison expansion / Erica R. Meiners -- Poem. Another day in the Champaign County Jail / Dennis Mansker -- Militarizing the police : Officer Jon Burge, torture, and war in the "urban jungle" / Julilly Kohler-Hausmann -- Poem. Gotta be careful where ya plant ya feet / Marvin Mays -- Killing democracy; or, how the drug war drives the prison-industrial complex / Daniel Mark Larson -- Poem. Another day / Erika Baro -- Teaching you to love fear : television news and racial stereotypes in a punishing democracy / Travis L. Dixon -- Poem. In search of salvation / William T. Smith -- Diagnosing the schools-to-prisons pipeline : maximum security, minimum learning / Rose Braz and Myesha Williams -- A piece of the reply : the Prison Creative Arts Project and practicing resistance / Buzz Alexander -- Poem. The poet's corner / George Hall -- Each one reach one : playwriting and community activism as redemption and prevention / Robin Sohnen -- Poem. Devil talks / Robert "Chicago" McCollum -- Fostering cultures of achievement in urban schools : how to work



toward the abolition of the schools-to-prisons pipeline / Garrett Albert Duncan -- Poem. January 3, 2009 / Nicole Monahan -- Humanizing education behind bars : Shakespeare and the theater of empowerment / Jonathan Shailor -- Poem. Anger / Kenneth Sean Kelly -- Breaking down the walls : inside-out learning and the pedagogy of transformation / Lori Pompa.