James Kilgore
Biographic Data
| ID | 269282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Kilgore |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Kilgore |
| SIGNATURE | KILGORE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Blood in the Water
I was still in prison when I first heard Heather Thompson was writing a book about Attica. Having read her work on Detroit, I expected a brilliant treatise. I've now been out for seven years and I
Understanding Mass Incarceration
Mass Incarceration
Michelle Alexander's critical analysis of the US criminal justice system contained in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness has received extraordinary critical and popular acclaim. Her main thesis, that mass incarceration constitutes a new system of racial oppression akin to slavery and the original Jim Crow, has had a profound impact on mainstream and academic framing of criminal justice issues. This article outlines …
Is Another Pedagogical World Possible? Teaching Globalization to My Fellow Prisoners
I spent many years before my incarcerations as a popular educator for left-wing trade unions and social movements in South Africa. I took my role as a critical pedagogue of the Freirian stripe quite seriously. However, after five years of working as a twenty cent an hour teacher’s aide in various federal and California state correctional facilities I’d lowered my pedagogical horizons to helping people pass their GED math test. 1 I had rigorously …
Progress or More of the Same? Electronic Monitoring and Parole in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Mass Incarceration and Working Class Interests
Since the early 1980s mass incarceration has become a critical fixture on the U.S. social landscape. Prison and jail populations have increased almost fivefold since 1980 with similar increments in the ranks of those under parole and probation. Historically many labor analysts and unions have regarded incarcerated people as an aberrant sector of the working class. Labels such as “lumpen proletariat,” “criminals,” and the “undeserving poor” have o…
Bringing Freire Behind the Walls
James Kilgore (from Radical Teacher 90, May 2011, 57-66) Introduction For more than 20 years before my incarceration, I was an educator. I worked as a high school math and history teacher in Zimbabwe and in South Africa as a college lecturer and educator/trainer for unions and social movements. As a white teacher in a part of the world with a history steeped in racism, I was accustomed to being a minority and had extensive experience discussing r…
How to Begin a Psychotherapy Group
Being up in a down World
Counseling and Psychotheraphy. Classic on Theories and Issues
On Becoming a Counselor
Since its first publication in 1977, Eugene Kennedy and Sara Charles's 'On Becoming a Counsellor' has become the one, indispensable resource for all those who, without extensive psychological training, must deal with troubled individuals - the confused, the grieving, the suffering, the immature, who so often turn to teachers, doctors, nurses, lawyers, clergy, and frequently to old friends. This new and completely revised edition will bring this a…
Being a Man in a Woman's World
Progress or More of the Same? Electronic Monitoring and Parole in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Mass Incarceration
Michelle Alexander's critical analysis of the US criminal justice system contained in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness has received extraordinary critical and popular acclaim. Her main thesis, that mass incarceration constitutes a new system of racial oppression akin to slavery and the original Jim Crow, has had a profound impact on mainstream and academic framing of criminal justice issues. This article outlines …
Mass Incarceration and Working Class Interests
Since the early 1980s mass incarceration has become a critical fixture on the U.S. social landscape. Prison and jail populations have increased almost fivefold since 1980 with similar increments in the ranks of those under parole and probation. Historically many labor analysts and unions have regarded incarcerated people as an aberrant sector of the working class. Labels such as “lumpen proletariat,” “criminals,” and the “undeserving poor” have o…
Being a Man in a Woman's World
Counseling and Psychotheraphy. Classic on Theories and Issues
On Becoming a Counselor
Since its first publication in 1977, Eugene Kennedy and Sara Charles's 'On Becoming a Counsellor' has become the one, indispensable resource for all those who, without extensive psychological training, must deal with troubled individuals - the confused, the grieving, the suffering, the immature, who so often turn to teachers, doctors, nurses, lawyers, clergy, and frequently to old friends. This new and completely revised edition will bring this a…
How to Begin a Psychotherapy Group
Being up in a down World
Bringing Freire Behind the Walls
James Kilgore (from Radical Teacher 90, May 2011, 57-66) Introduction For more than 20 years before my incarceration, I was an educator. I worked as a high school math and history teacher in Zimbabwe and in South Africa as a college lecturer and educator/trainer for unions and social movements. As a white teacher in a part of the world with a history steeped in racism, I was accustomed to being a minority and had extensive experience discussing r…
Mass Incarceration and Working Class Interests
Since the early 1980s mass incarceration has become a critical fixture on the U.S. social landscape. Prison and jail populations have increased almost fivefold since 1980 with similar increments in the ranks of those under parole and probation. Historically many labor analysts and unions have regarded incarcerated people as an aberrant sector of the working class. Labels such as “lumpen proletariat,” “criminals,” and the “undeserving poor” have o…
Is Another Pedagogical World Possible? Teaching Globalization to My Fellow Prisoners
I spent many years before my incarcerations as a popular educator for left-wing trade unions and social movements in South Africa. I took my role as a critical pedagogue of the Freirian stripe quite seriously. However, after five years of working as a twenty cent an hour teacher’s aide in various federal and California state correctional facilities I’d lowered my pedagogical horizons to helping people pass their GED math test. 1 I had rigorously …
Progress or More of the Same? Electronic Monitoring and Parole in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Understanding Mass Incarceration
Mass Incarceration
Michelle Alexander's critical analysis of the US criminal justice system contained in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness has received extraordinary critical and popular acclaim. Her main thesis, that mass incarceration constitutes a new system of racial oppression akin to slavery and the original Jim Crow, has had a profound impact on mainstream and academic framing of criminal justice issues. This article outlines …
Blood in the Water
I was still in prison when I first heard Heather Thompson was writing a book about Attica. Having read her work on Detroit, I expected a brilliant treatise. I've now been out for seven years and I
Psychology (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Mass incarceration (4 works) · Prison (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · History (3 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (3 works)