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Assata Taught Me - State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Movement for Black Lives (Hardcover)
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Assata Taught Me - State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Movement for Black Lives (Hardcover)
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Black Panther and Cuban exile, Assata Shakur, has inspired multiple
generations of radical protest, including our contemporary Black
Lives Matter movement. Drawing its title from one of America's
foremost revolutionaries, this collection of thought-provoking
essays by award-winning Panther scholar Donna Murch explores how
social protest is challenging our current system of state violence
and mass incarceration. Murch exposes the devastating consequences
of overlapping punishment campaigns against gangs, drugs, and crime
on poor and working-class populations of color. Through largely
hidden channels, it is these punishment campaigns, Murch says, that
generate enormous revenues for the state. Under such difficult
conditions, organized resistance to the advancing tide of state
violence and incarceration has proved difficult. This timely and
urgent book shows how a youth-led political movement has emerged
since the killing of Trayvon Martin that challenges the bi-partisan
consensus on punishment and looks to the future through a
redistributive, queer, and feminist lens. Murch frames the
contemporary Black Lives Matter movement in relation to earlier
struggles for Black Liberation, while excavating the origins of
mass incarceration and the political economy that drives it. Assata
Taught Me offers a fresh and much-needed historical perspective on
the fifty years since the founding of the Black Panther Party, in
which the world's largest police state has emerged.
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