Carceral Apartheid
eBook - ePub

Carceral Apartheid

How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Carceral Apartheid

How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons

About this book

It is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons. There is a particular power dynamic of racist intent in the prison system that culminates in what Brittany Friedman terms carceral apartheid. Prisons are a microcosm of how carceral apartheid operates as a larger governing strategy to decimate political targets and foster deceit, disinformation, and division in society.

Among many shocking discoveries, Friedman shows that, beginning in the 1950s, California prison officials declared war on imprisoned Black people and sought to identify Black militants as a key problem, creating a strategy for the management, segregation, and elimination of these individuals from the prison population that continues into the present day. Carceral Apartheid delves into how the California Department of Corrections deployed various official, clandestine, and at times extralegal control techniques—including officer alliances with imprisoned white supremacists—to suppress Black political movements, revealing the broader themes of deception, empire, corruption, and white supremacy in American mass incarceration. Drawing from original interviews with founders of Black political movements such as the Black Guerilla Family, white supremacists, and a swath of little-known archival data, Friedman uncovers how the US domestic war against imprisoned Black people models and perpetuates genocide, imprisonment, and torture abroad.

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Information

Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781469683409
9781469683393
eBook ISBN
9781469683065

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Prologue
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Chronology. Carceral Apartheid: US Edition
  10. Chronology. Carceral Apartheid: World Edition
  11. Introduction to Fate
  12. Part I: Carceral Apartheid
  13. Part II: Obey
  14. Part III: Rebel
  15. Part IV: Aftermath
  16. Conclusion. Invitation to Awaken
  17. Appendix. Truth-Telling as Method
  18. Notes
  19. Index

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