The Roots of Mass Incarceration: Locking Up Black Dissidents and Punishing the Poor

The journal Socialism and Democracy recently published a special issue on “The Roots of Mass Incarceration: Locking Up Black Dissidents and Punishing the Poor” — this is normally not a journal which is available for free, however given the important nature of this issue, for a limited time all content is free and can be downloaded.

The table of contents are below, however to download go to: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csad20/28/3#.VRLwx_nF-Sq

Locking Up Black Dissidents and Punishing the Poor: The Roots of Mass Incarceration in the US
Mumia Abu-Jamal & Johanna Fernández
Deepening the Debate over Mass Incarceration
Angela Y. Davis

Towards a Happy Ending
Vijay Prashad
Class, Race and Hyperincarceration in Revanchist America
Loïc Wacquant
Racialized Mass Imprisonment: Counterinsurgency and Genocide
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Police Impunity, Human Autonomy, and Jim Crow
Steve Martinot
Militarism, Mass Surveillance and Mass Incarceration
Suren Moodliar

“We Reserve the Right to Resist”: Prison Wars and Black Resistance
déqui kioni-sadiki & Sekou Odinga
Black Power Incarcerated: Political Prisoners, Genocide, and the State
Laura Whitehorn
Revolutionary Relatability: Assata: An Autobiography as a Site of Radical Teaching and Learning
Joseph G. Ramsey
Insurgent Intellectual: Mumia Abu-Jamal in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Nyle Fort
Lessons from Attica: From Prisoner Rebellion to Mass Incarceration and Back
Heather Ann Thompson

Christianity and US Prison Abolition: Rupturing a Hegemonic Christian Ideology
Mark Lewis Taylor
Toward the Abolition of the Prison System
Steve Martinot

Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP): Challenging the Punishment Paradigm
Mujahid Farid & Laura Whitehorn
Prison Films: An Overview
Inez Hedges

Communication: We Must Resist the “Happy Slave” Mentality in Texas Prisons
Keith “Malik” Washington