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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The American homeland is a place produced by constant warfare, both domestic and international. The United States is the world’s leading jailer, with 2.3 million people in cages today. These essays detail how the continual intensification of criminalization is grounded in the principles of racism, expropriation, and aggression that centrally organize the land of the ever-diminishing free.”—Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing CaliforniaTable of ContentsPreface: The American Archipelago ix
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction: Violations / Joy James 3
I. Insurgent Knowledge
1. The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal / Frank B. Wilderson III 23
2. Forced Passages / Dylan Rodriguez 35
3. Sorrow: The Good Soldier and the Good Women / Joy James 58
4. War Within: A Prison Interview / Dhoruba Bin Waha 76
5. Domestic Warfare: A Dialogue / Marshall Eddie Conway 98
6. Soledad Brother and Blood in My Eye / George Jackson 122
7. The Masked Assassination / Michel Foucault, Catherine Von Bulow, Daniel Defert, Translation and Introduction by Sirene Harb 140
8. A Century of Colonialism: One Hundred Years of Puerto Rican Resistance / Oscar Lopez Rivera 161
II. Policing and Prison Technologies
9. Racial Profiling and the Societies of Control / Jared Sexton 197
10. Jihadis in the Hood: Race, Urban Islam, and the War on Terror / Hishaam Aidi 219
11. The Effects of Repression on Women in Prison / Marilyn Buck 238
12. Ponderings from the Eternal Now / Carol Gilbert, O.P. 250
13. Resisting the Ordinary / Laura Whitehorn with Susie Day 273
14. Cultures of torture / William F. Pinar 290
15. Katrina’s Unusual Disaster: A Tragedy of Black Suffering and White Denial / Manning Marable 305
Bibliography 315
Contributors 333
Permissions 337
Index 339
