Those Who Know Don't Say

The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19969801
AutoresGarrett Felber (autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Páginas272
Fecha de publicación2020-01-13
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaThose Who Know Don't Say (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialUniversity of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653822.001.0001
OpenAlexW4240343172
Open LibraryOL28728437M
ISBN9781469653822
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16

The Nation of Islam was at the forefront of the struggle against policing and prisons so central to the postwar Black Freedom Struggle. Far from being the insular, apolitical, religiously heretical group that popular accounts have described, the Nation of Islam was an ambitious political force that sought to build all-black coalitions against police brutality and to fight for the constitutional rights of prisoners. Using prayer as a form of protest within Folsom Prison, and turning the trial of Ronald Stokes in Los Angeles into courtroom political theater, the Nation of Islam innovated new tactics over the course of their campaigns, turning prison yards and courtrooms into sites of protest. To combat the formidable challenge posed by this disciplined black nationalist organizing, the carceral state responded with new modes of surveillance, punishment, and ideological knowledge creation

Criminology · Ideology · Islam · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Prayer · Prison · Punishment (psychology) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Religious studies · Social Psychology · Administration of Justice · antiblackness · Black Muslims · Black nationalism · Discrimination in criminal justice administration · Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) · History · Malcolm X (1925-1965) · Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.)