Captives (eBook)

How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage

Jarrod Shanahan (Autor)

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2022 | Ebook UK & RoW
448 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-78873-997-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Captives combines a thrilling narrative account of Rikers Island's descent into infamy with a dramatic retelling of the last seventy years of New York and American politics from the vantage point of its jails. It is a story of a crowded field of contending powers-city bureaucrats and unions, black power activists and correction offices, crooked cops and elected leaders- struggle for the right to run our cities, a story that culminates in the triumph of of the twin figures we today call neoliberalism and mass incarceration. It is the history of how the Rikers Island of today-and the social order it represents-came to be. With a sweeping vision and an often cinematic touch, Captives records how the tempo of history was set by the metronome of bloody and bruising clashes between corrections officers and prisoners, and between police officers and virtually everyone else. Written by a one-time inmate, Captives draws on extensive archival research, decades of journalism, interviews, prisoner testimonials, and firsthand experience to deliver an urgent intervention into our nationwide conversation about the future of mass incarceration.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.5.2022
• Zusatzinfo: + 8pp b&w plate section?
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 13th amendment • 13th amendment incarceration • abolish prisons • Abolition • abolitionist • abolitionist movement • acab • Alexander • Alex Vitale • Angela • Angela Davis • are prisons obsolete • Assata Shakur • Attica • Became • Black • Black Liberation Army • Black lives matter • Black Panthers • Blood • blood in the water • books by felons • books by prisoners • Chesa Boudin • Cops • correction officers • criminal justice • Criminal Justice Reform • Crow • Davis • Elizabeth • Elizabeth Hinton • Eric Adams • felons • fire to the prisons • Foreman • FTP • Gilmore • Golden • golden gulag • Gotham • GULAG • Heather Anne Thompson • hinton • history jails • how the irish became white • hunger strike • Ignatiev • In • Irish • Island • jail reform • Jails • Jails New York • James • James Foreman Jr. • James Freedman • Jim • Johanna Fernandez • Joshua Freedman • Jr. • Larry Krasner • Locking • Locking Up Our Own • Mass Incarceration • mass incarceration history • Michelle • Michelle Alexander • Movement • New Jim Crow • new york city history • Noel • Noel Ignatiev • No New Jails • obsolete • Orange • Orange is the new black • Our Enemies in Blue • police abolition • police power • political economy prisons • prison abolition • Prisoners • Prison history • Prisons • rikers • rikers island • Ruth • ruth Wilson Gilmore • the • The Black Panthers • The End of the Police • The Tombs • The Tomns • The Young Lords • Tombs • Water • White • Wilson • working class history • Working Class New York • York
• ISBN-10: 1-78873-997-3 / 1788739973
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-997-9 / 9781788739979