Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation - Couverture rigide

Corrigan, Lisa M.

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ISBN 10 : 1496809076 ISBN 13 : 9781496809070

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2016

Synopsis

HOW ICONIC AUTOBIOGRAPHIES FOUND INCARCERATION PIVOTAL TO THE TRANSITION BETWEEN CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK POWER

In the black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource. Imprisoned activists developed tactics and ideology to counter white supremacy. Lisa M. Corrigan underscores how imprisonment--a site for both political and personal transformation--shaped movement leaders by in uencing their political analysis and organizational strategies. Prison became the critical space for the transformation from civil rights to Black Power, especially as southern civil rights activists faced setbacks.

Black Power activists produced autobiographical writings, essays, and letters about and from prison beginning with the early sit-in movement. Examining the iconic prison autobiographies of H. Rap Brown, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Assata Shakur, Corrigan conducts rhetorical analyses of these extremely popular though under-studied accounts of the Black Power movement. 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. Corrigan lls 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. These discourses demonstrate how Black Power activism shifted its tactics to regenerate, even after the FBI sought to disrupt, discredit, and destroy the movement.

LISA M. CORRIGAN, Fayetteville, Arkansas, is an associate professor of communication, director of the gender studies program, and af liate faculty in African and African American studies and Latin American studies at the University of Arkansas.

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À propos de l'auteur

Lisa M. Corrigan is 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. She is author of Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation and Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496809076
• ISBN 13: 9781496809070
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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