Challenging the prison-industrial complex activism, arts, and educational alternatives / edited by Stephen John Hartnett.

Other author Hartnett, Stephen J.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press,
Descriptionx, 291 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographic references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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LCCN 2010024101
ISBN9780252035821 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0252035828 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780252077708 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0252077709 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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