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Assata Taught Me - Donna Murch

Assata Taught Me

State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Movement for Black Lives

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Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2022
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-64259-516-1 (ISBN)
CHF 29,65 inkl. MwSt
A fresh historical perspective on the fifty years since the founding of the Black Panther Party, in which the world's largest police state has emerged.
Black Panther and Cuban exile Assata Shakur has inspired generations of radical protest, including the contemporary movement for Black lives. Drawing its title from one of America's foremost revolutionaries, this collection of thought-provoking essays by award-winning Panther scholar Donna Murch explores how social protest is challenging our current system of state violence and mass incarceration.

Murch exposes the devastating consequences of overlapping punishment campaigns against gangs, drugs, and crime on poor and working-class populations of color. Through largely hidden channels, these punishment campaigns generate enormous revenues for the state. Under such conditions, organized resistance to the advancing tide of state violence and mass incarceration has proven difficult.

This timely and urgent book shows how a youth-led political movement has emerged in recent years to challenge the bipartisan consensus on punishment and looks to the future through a redistributive, queer, and feminist lens. Murch frames the contemporary movement in relation to earlier struggles for Black Liberation, while excavating the origins of mass incarceration and the political economy that drives it.

Donna Murch is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and sits on the Executive Council of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT.She is the author of Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (University of North Carolina Press).

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Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Chicago
Sprache englisch
Maße 139 x 215 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Volkskunde
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-64259-516-0 / 1642595160
ISBN-13 978-1-64259-516-1 / 9781642595161
Zustand Neuware
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