Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

by Dan Berger

Book Overview

In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression while arguing that confinement was an inescapable part of black life in the United States. Black prisoners became global political icons at a time when...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469629798
• ISBN13: 9781469629797
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"