Essential radical texts by enslaved, jailed, and imprisoned
Americans, edited by renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
and activist-scholar Jennifer Black. “Martin Luther King told us
what he saw when he went to the mountaintop....But there’s also
the foot of the mountain, and there are also the regions beneath
the surface. I want to try to tell you a little something about
those regions.”—Angela Y. Davis Beneath the Mountain is a
reader’s guide for understanding the evolution of anti-prison
tenets. This essential core of primary texts provides an arc of
insurgent writings by dissidents and revolutionaries who
experienced incarceration and state terror first-hand. With
contributions from John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and Crazy Horse,
to Assata Shakur, Malcolm X, and Leonard Peltier, it also includes
a previously unpublished communiqué from Angela Davis, written
from jail at the time when she was forging the anti-prison critique
that has since inspired a national movement. Beneath the Mountain
offers a record of the historic foundations for the contemporary
abolition movement. What emerges from these texts is an
emancipatory vision that inspires the work being done today, a
vision centered on organizing and solidarity as an antidote to
repression. An invaluable resource for readers on both sides of
prison walls, this compendium of resistance and hard-won vision
will be essential to all who seek to develop an abolitionist
critique and to further an understanding of the nature of
repression and liberation.
General
| Imprint: |
City Lights Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Open Media Series |
| Release date: |
May 2023 |
| Editors: |
Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Jennifer Black
|
| Dimensions: |
200 x 139mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
300 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-87286-926-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-87286-926-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780872869264 |
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