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Captive Nation

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Captive Nation

By Dan Berger

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About the book

In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression while arguing that confinement was an inescapable part of black life in the United States. Black prisoners became global political icons at a time when notions of race and nation were in flux. Showing...Show more

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9781469629797

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

Captive Nation

Format

Paperback

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