{"product_id":"tip-of-the-spear-9780520396319","title":"Tip of the Spear","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA radical reinterpretation of Attica, the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and transformed prisons.    Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With this book, Orisanmi Burton explores what he terms the Long Attica Revolt, a criminalized tradition of Black radicalism that propelled rebellions in New York prisons during the 1970s. The reaction to this revolt illuminates what Burton calls prison pacification: the coordinated tactics of violence, isolation, sexual terror, propaganda, reform, and white supremacist science and technology that state actors use to eliminate Black resistance within and beyond prison walls.    Burton goes beyond the state records that other histories have relied on for the story of Attica and expands that archive, drawing on oral history and applying Black radical theory in ways that center the intellectual and political goals of the incarcerated people who \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fresh and urgent interpretation of the meaning of Attica. . . . Burton has crafted a masterpiece that, as much as any single book can, shows the way forward for a new generation of activist-scholars, agitators, revolutionaries, and other partisans of human liberation, to redeem the dead and build a new society in their name.” * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“Burton gives readers a deeply-felt look at the activists who participated in these revolts. . . . His interviews with survivors are incisive and reflect an appreciation of the political knowledge and passion that led these men to foment rebellion, however risky.” * The Progressive *\u003cbr\u003e\"Magnificent. . . . \u003ci\u003eTip of the Spear\u003c\/i\u003e is a massive accomplishment of scholarship and political analysis.\" * Propaganda in Focus *\u003cbr\u003e“Not only is \u003ci\u003eTip of the Spear \u003c\/i\u003ean important addition to the growing volume of literature regarding the role of prisons in the racist capitalist state that is the United States, the thesis of the text represents a major evolution in the historical representation of US prisons.” * CounterPunch *\u003cbr\u003e“A remarkable account of how prison repression and reform intertwine, one that poses fundamental dilemmas about whether our legal system can ever properly serve movements for social change. It is a book that will unsettle and enrage you. It should also become the account of Attica that every interested person reads.” * Inquest *\u003cbr\u003e\"With Tip of the Spear, Burton hasn’t just salvaged the imprisoned Black radical tradition from the condescension of liberal posterity, but provided a singular lesson in militant intellectual method, shedding stark illumination on the counterinsurgent genealogy of prison reform (between philanthropy and psyops) while doing justice to an abolitionist horizon oriented toward maximum demands rather than piecemeal adaptations.\" * Verso Author Pick *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE. THE LONG ATTICA REVOLT \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Sharpening the Spear\u003cbr\u003e Strategies and Tactics of Revolutionary Action \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Black Solidarity Under Siege\u003cbr\u003e Three Terrains of Protracted Rebellion \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Attica Is\u003cbr\u003e Revolutionary Consciousness and Abolitionist Worldmaking \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO. PRISON PACIFICATION \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Gender War\u003cbr\u003e Sexual Revenge and White Masculine Repair \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Hidden War\u003cbr\u003e Four Strategies of Reformist Counterinsurgency\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. The War on Black Revolutionary Minds\u003cbr\u003e Failed Experiments in Scientific Subjugation \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402971062615,"sku":"9780520396319","price":64.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520396319.jpg?v=1730481998","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tip-of-the-spear-9780520396319","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}