Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (861 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1496814878 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 210 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Lisa M. Corrigan, Fayetteville, Arkansas, is an associate professor of communication, director of the gender studies program, and affiliate faculty in African and African American studies and in Latin American studies at the University of Arkansas.
This volume provides a rich exploration of the history of This volume provides a rich exploration of the history of incarceration during civil rights activism. The lessons Dr. Corrigan finds in this book are relevant in our current political situation - a must read.
She introduces the notion of the “Black Power vernacular” as a term for the prison memoirists’ rhetorical innovations, to explain how the movement adapted to an increasingly hostile environment in both the Johnson and Nixon administrations.Through prison writings, these activists deployed narrative features supporting certain tenets of Black Power, pride in blackness, disavowal of nonviolence, identification with the Third World, and identity strategies focused on black masculinity. These discourses demonstrate how Black Power activism shifted its tactics to regenerate, even after the FBI sought to disrupt, discredit, and destroy the movement.. Rap Brown, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Assata Shakur, Corrigan conducts rhetorical analyses of these extremely popular though understudied accounts of the Black Power movement. Corrigan fills gaps between Black Power historiography and prison studies by scrutinizing the rhetorical forms and strategies of the Black Power ideology that arose from prison politics. In the black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource. Examining the iconic prison autobiographies of H. Imprisoned activists developed tactics and ideology to counter white supremacy. Prison became the critical space for the transformation from civil rights to Black Power, especially as southern civil rights activi
Corrigan shows the critical role that prisons and imprisonment have historically played in black liberation struggles and how the actors in those struggles have understood prison and used it to build movements. She discusses significant events in the civil rights movement in the United States and the tactics society used to suppress that movement. She details how activists in the civil rights movement were jailed and the effect that incarceration had on them as individuals; how the writings of those prisoners had a significant effect on society and the black movement; and the his