Introduction: Violations / Joy James -- The prison slave as hegemony's (silent) scandal / Frank B. Wilderson III -- Forced passages / Dylan Rodríguez -- Sorrow : the good soldier and the good woman / Joy James -- War within : a prison interview / Dhoruba Bin Wahad -- Domestic warfare : a dialogue / Marshall Eddie Conway -- Soledad brother/Blood in my eye (excerpts) / George Jackson -- The masked assassination / Michel Foucault, Catherine von Bülow, Daniel Defert ; translation and introduction by Sirène Harb -- A century of colonialism : one hundred years of Puerto Rican resistance / Oscar López Rivera -- Racial profiling and the societies of control / Jared Sexton -- Jihadis in the hood : race, urban Islam, and the war on terror / Hishaam Aidi -- The effects of repression on women in prison / Marilyn Buck -- Ponderings from the eternal now / Carol Gilbert, O.P. -- Resisting the ordinary / Laura Whitehorn (with Susie Day) -- Cultures of torture / William F. Pinar -- Katrina's unnatural disaster : a tragedy of black suffering and white denial / Manning Marable.
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The United States has more than two million people locked away in federal, state, and local prisons. Although most of the U.S. population is non-Hispanic and white, the vast majority of the incarcerated--and policed--is not. Through biography, diary entries, and criticism, the contributors collectively assert that the United States wages war against enemies abroad and against its own people at home. [from publisher description].
Warfare in the American homeland.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration-- United States.
Discrimination in law enforcement-- United States.
Imprisonment-- United States.
Minorities-- United States.
Prisoners-- United States.
Prisons-- United States.
Social control-- United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.