Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime

Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime
ISBN-10
0816645612
ISBN-13
9780816645619
Category
Political Science
Pages
322
Language
English
Published
2006-01
Publisher
U of Minnesota Press
Author
Dylan Rodríguez

Description

With the US having the highest incarceration rate in the world, prisons have become sites of radical political discourse and resistance. Dylan Rodriguez examines the work of a number of imprisoned intellectuals, such as Angela Davis and Leonard Peltier, and looks at how imprisonment has shaped their writing.

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