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...Tina Loo; Carolyn Strange Copyright ©2000 MARHO: The Radical Historian's Organization, Inc. 2000 ”Rock Prison of Liberation”: Alcatraz Island and the American Imagination Tina Loo and Carolyn Strange Exploring...

... how popular culture both shapes and is shaped by political events and contexts. In "'Rock Prison of Liberation': Alcatraz Island and the American Imagina- tion," Tina Loo and Carolyn Strange explore the unlikely transformation of Alcatraz Island. Once a notorious high security prison that came...

..., and Alcatraz. Marilyn B. Young is Professor of History at New York University. She is author of The Vietnam Wars, 1945-2990. ...

... Alcatraz was occupied. My own activism started as a Native American student at UCLA, and I participated in the Alcatraz movement. I was in on the beginning of the third occupation of the island. The occupation last- ed for seventeen months. 1 stayed for the first six or seven weeks - not quite...

... one on San Francisco Bay’s Alcatraz Island, deal well with the realities of life in prison. They are less effective, however, at examining why people end up in jail in the first place and how that experience shapes our society. If the proven appeal of “dark tourism” is any indicator, we would...

... Casarino (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), ii. 103. See James, Imprisoned Intellectuals; Richard Korn, “Excerpts from a Report on the Effects of Confinement in the Lexington High Security Unit”; and Fay Dowker and Glenn Good, “From Alcatraz to Marion to Florence...