According to George Jackson, black men born in the US are
conditioned to accept the inevitability of being imprisoned....
Being born a slave in a captive society and never experiencing any
objective basis for expectation had the effect of preparing me for
the progressively traumatic misfortune that led so many black men
to the prison gate. I was prepared for prison. It required only
minor psychic adjustments. As Jackson writes from his prison cell,
his statement may seem to be only a product of his current status.
However, history proves his point. Indeed, some of the most
well-known and respected black men have served time in jail or
prison. Among them are Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Marcus
Garvey, and Frederick Douglass. This book is an examination of the
various forms that imprisonment, as asocial, historical, and
political experience of African Americans, has taken. Confinement
describes the status of individuals who are placed within
boundaries either seen or unseen but always felt. A word that
suggests extensive implications, confinement describes the status
of persons who are imprisoned and who are unjustly relegated to a
social status that is hostile, rendering them powerless and subject
to the rules of the authorities. Arguably, confinement
appropriately describes the status of African Americans who have
endured spaces of confinement, which include, but are not limited
to plantations, Jim Crow societies, and prisons. At specific times,
these spaces of confinement have been used to oppress African
Americans socially, politically, and spiritually. Contributors
examine the related experiences of Malcolm X, Bigger Thomas of
Native Son, and Angela Davis.
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