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Author:

Bernstein, Lee, 1967-

Title:

America is the prison : arts and politics in prison in the 1970s / Lee Bernstein.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xi, 224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Prisoners as artists--United States.
Arts, American--20th century.
Arts--History--United States--History--20th century.
Arts and society--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0807871176 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807871171 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807833878 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807833872 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)441211721

LCCN:

2009049999

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)