Bernstein, Lee, 1967-

America is the prison arts and politics in prison in the 1970s / [electronic resource] : Lee Bernstein. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010. - xi, 224 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-214) and index.

We shall have order: the cultural politics of law and order -- The age of Jackson: George Jackson and the radical critique of incarceration -- What works? reform and repression in prison programs -- We took the weight: incarcerated writers and artists in the Black Arts movement -- Cell block theater: entertainment, liberation, and the politics of prison theater -- Radical chic: Jack Henry Abbott and the decline of prison programming.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2013.
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Prisoners as artists--United States.
Arts, American--20th century.
Arts--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Arts and society--History--United States--20th century.


Electronic books.

NX164.P7 / B47 2010eb

709.73/09047

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