More than two million people are currently imprisoned in the United
States, and the nation's incarceration rate is now the highest in
the world. The dramatic rise and consolidation of America's prison
system has devastated lives and communities. But it has also
transformed prisons into primary sites of radical political
discourse and resistance as they have become home to a growing
number of writers, activists, poets, educators, and other
intellectuals who offer radical critiques of American society both
within and beyond the prison walls.
In "Forced Passages," Dylan Rodriguez argues that the cultural
production of such imprisoned intellectuals as Mumia Abu-Jamal,
Angela Davis, Leonard Peltier, George Jackson, Jose Solis Jordan,
Ramsey Muniz, Viet Mike Ngo, and Marilyn Buck should be understood
as a social and intellectual movement in and of itself, unique in
context and substance. Rodriguez engages with a wide range of
texts, including correspondence, memoirs, essays, poetry,
communiques, visual art, and legal writing, drawing on published
works by widely recognized figures and by individuals outside the
public's field of political vision or concern. Throughout,
Rodriguez focuses on the conditions under which imprisoned
intellectuals live and work, and he explores how incarceration
shapes the ways in which insurgent knowledge is created,
disseminated, and received.
More than a series of close readings of prison literature, "Forced
Passages" identifies and traces the discrete lineage of radical
prison thought since the 1970s, one formed by the logic of state
violence and by the endemic racism of the criminal justice system.
Dylan Rodriguez is assistant professor of ethnicstudies at the
University of California, Riverside.
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