America Is the Prison: Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s Colonialism From dealing with the cops

From dealing with the cops to dealing with your peers

and the unconventional strategies that helped achieve them

the writings of Subcomandante Marcos give eloquent expression to this movement

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author of A People’s History of the United States

America Is the Prison: Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s Colonialism From dealing with the copsby Lee Bernstein University of North Carolina Press 2016, paperback SKU: 9780807871171 In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings. Lee Bernstein explores the forces that sparked a dramatic prison art renaissance, shedding light on how incarcerated people produced powerful works of