... 7 DAILY LIFE IN PRISON—II: PRISON SUBCULTURES AND LIVING CONDITIONS Living inside a prison ought to be a traumatic experience for most hu- man beings. Besides the obvious fact that inmates are deprived of their freedom and are...

...Release from Prison Nelson Mandela In 1989, President P. W. Botha suffered a stroke. F. W. de Klerk (1936–) succeeded him in office that September; he would be the last leader of the apartheid era. De Klerk’s rise to power came during a time of domestic and international crisis. South...

... Barbara Harlow Sites of Struggle: Immigration, Deportation, Prison, and Exile I In her 1977 essay, "The Chicana Labor Force," Rosaura Sanchez pre• sents an analysis of the recent history of Mexican-American working women and examines the consequences of such an...

...chapter 6 Prison hilippe Giroux’s prospects darkened as soon as the new commissioners P—Antoine Jacquot and Michel Millière—took over the investigation into the murder of Pierre Baillet and Philibert Neugot in March 1640. First, several of Giroux’s household servants were apprehended...

...Conclusion ‘‘she was born in this prison black female crime, past and present A56 colored female died at 4 pm ‘‘she was Born in this prison’’ was 27 years of age the body was taken by her friends. —Michael Cassidy, Eastern State Penitentiary, Warden’s...

... chapter 4 prison writing Suid-Afrikanerskap is ’n wordingsproses. Suid-Afrikanerskap loop deur die afbreek van apartheid en die help bou aan die groot Andersmaak. Ons máák mekaar. [South-Africanhood is a process of becoming. South...

... Sor Juana in Prison: A Virtual Pageant Play JESUSA RODRÍGUEZ with the Collaboration of Tito Vasconcelos, Manuel Poncelis, and Liliana Felipe Translated by Diana Taylor with Marlène Ramírez-Cancio This play was written for...

... On Spatial and Temporal Exile: Expatriation and Prison Life Hiber Conteris o o those panelists who, like myself, have been asked to write on "The T Shores of...

.... —Alexis de Tocqueville, De la démocratie en Amérique, 1835* *Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. Richard Heffner (New York: Signet Classics, 2001), 70. My translation. 6 The Prison as...

... ∞ Set the Prisoners Free The Christian Right and the Prison Industrial Complex The history of the prison reveals that this institution which has emerged as the dominant mode of punishment has been unable to solve the problem of crime, but...

... Punish: The Birth of the Prison MICHEL FOUCAULT part ii. punishment Chapter 2. The Gentle Way in Punishment The art of punishing, then, must rest on a whole technology of representa- tion. The undertaking can succeed only if it forms part of a natural mechanics. ‘‘Like the gravitation of...

... Six The American Experiment From Prison-­Academic-­Industrial Complex to the Outsourced Clinic The vertically integrated pharmaceutical firm, which rose to prominence after World War II and culminated in the...

...Chapter 3 PRISON BLUES Literary Activism and a Poetry of Resistance Barbed wire fence surrounds me And the fog rolls slowly in The elms stand tall and stately And the maples crowd them in CLAUDIA...

... Afterword the prison and the pentagon Dissimulation, secretiveness appear as a necessity to the melancholic. —Susan Sontag, Under the Sign of...

... 1 The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal Frank B. Wilderson III The Black experience in this country has been a phenomenon without analog. —EUGENE GENOVESE, “EUGENE RIVERS’S CHALLENGE: A RESPONSE,” BOSTON REVIEW, OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1993...

... 4 War Within: A Prison Interview Dhoruba Bin Wahad Dhoruba Bin Wahad: My name is Dhoruba Al Mujahid Bin Wahad, formerly Dhoruba Moore. I’m a political prisoner. I’ve been incarcerated in New York State for nearly nineteen years, which I guess makes me one of the...

... PART II Policing and Prison Technologies The essays in part II explore the penal conditions and police surveillance di- rected in the “free” and penal worlds at blacks, whites, women, Muslims, Asian Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Native Americans. This part begins with the profiling of...