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Author Bernstein, Lee, 1967-

Title America is the prison [electronic resource] : arts and politics in prison in the 1970s / Lee Bernstein.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 224 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-214) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Prisoners as artists -- United States.
Arts, American -- 20th century.
Arts -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Arts and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780807833872 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807871171 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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