Chapter 1 Prologue: "A New Declaration of Independence" Chapter 3 Introduction Part 4 I. Black Liberationists Chapter 5 1. "Letter from Birmingham Jail" Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapter 6 2. "The Ballot or the Bullet" Malcolm X Chapter 7 3. "Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation" Angela Y. Davis Chapter 8 4. "Prison, Where is Thy Victory" Huey P. Newton Chapter 9 5. "Towards the United Front" George Jackson Chapter 10 6. "COINTELPRO and the Destruction of Black Leaders and Organizations" (Abridged) Dhoruba bin Wahad Chapter 11 7. "On the Black Liberation Army" (Abridged) Jalil Muntaquim Chapter 12 8. "July 4th Address" Assata Shakur Chapter 13 9. "Coming of Age: A Black Revolutionary" Safiya Bukhari Chapter 14 10. "An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle" (Abridged) Sundiata Acoli Chapter 15 11. "Anarchism and the Black Revolution" (Abridged) Lorenzo Komboa Ervin Chapter 16 12. "Intellectuals and the Gallows" Mumia Abu-Jamal Part 17 II. Internationalists and Anti-Imperialists Chapter 18 13. "Genocide Waged Against the Black Nation" Mutulu Shakur, Anthony Bradshaw, Malik Dinguswa, Terry D. Long, Mark Cook, Adolfo Matos, and James Haskins Chapter 19 14. "The Struggle for Status Under International Law" Marilyn Buck Chapter 20 15. "White North American Political Prisoners" Rita Bo Brown Chapter 21 16. "On Trial" (Abridged) Raymond Luc Levasseur Chapter 22 17. "Letter to the Weathermen" Daniel J. Berrigan, S.J. Chapter 23 18. "Maternal Convictions: A Mother Beats a Missile into a Plowshare" (Abridged) Michele Naar-Obed Chapter 24 19. "Dykes and Fags Want to Know: Interview with Lesbian Political Prisoners" (with QUISP)" Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg, and Laura Whitehorn Chapter 25 20. "This Is Enough!" Jose Solis Jordan Chapter 26 21. "Art of Liberation: A Vision of Freedom" Elizam Escobar Chapter 27 22. "Violence and the State" Standing Deer Chapter 28 23. "Inipi: Sweat Lodge" Leonard Peltier Chapter 29 Epilogue: "Incommunicado: Dispatches From a Political Prisoner" A Poem by Marilyn Buck Chapter 30 Appendix: Internet Sites
Joy James is a professor in the Africana Studies Department at Brown University.
The notion of 'political prisoners' is not widely accepted in the
United States, and yet this country has had them. This
extraordinary collection brings us their voices, their ideas, which
have been muffled too long. These writers see American society with
an acute understanding that people on the outside have a hard time
matching.
*Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States and
professor emeritus of Political Science, Boston University*
The Jail is meant to be Cavernous, Bestial, Silence. Still the
voices of imprisoned intellectuals leak out. Joy James' excellent
volume demands our involvement in the struggle.
*Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian
History and Professor of International Studies, Trinity College,
Hartford, Connecticut*
An important collection. In these troubling times it is more
important than ever to discover the subversive intellectualism of
the incarcerated.
*Zillah Eisenstein*
A unique and very significant contribution.
*Bettina Aptheker, University of California, Santa Cruz*
A superb collection—both instructive and inspiring. Joy James is to
be complimented for this book and for her thoughtful introductory
essay.
*Dennis Brutus, poet and former political prisoner of South African
Apartheid*
In this extraordinary volume, James brings together the powerful
voices of prison resistance, past and present, providing the
intellectual foundations for a comparative approach to our
understanding of criminal justice as a tool for political
repression. Imprisoned Intellectuals creates a critical scholarly
resource for interpreting criminal justice and its impact on race,
gender, and class hierarchies of power.
*Manning Marable, M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of
African-American Studies, Columbia University*
A bracing, poignant, and finally edifying colloquy of voices whose
power and eloquence speak nobly against the forces that unfairly
imprison them. As this book makes clear, men and women unjustly
imprisoned by the state may ultimately hold the key to our moral
freedom through their courageous witness and brilliant analysis. In
a society hell-bent on locking up some of its greatest citizens,
Imprisoned Intellectuals is an inspiring intervention in a
conversation that is critical to our very survival.
*Michael Eric Dyson, author of Open Mike: Reflections on
Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture, and Religion*
The voices in Imprisoned Intellectuals tear apart common
assumptions about the impossibility of resistance and survival.
*San Francisco Bay Guardian Literary Supplement*
James's book reminds the reader about the preciousness and
tenuousness of freedom and liberty ...
*James E. Smith, University of Wyoming*
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