Mumia Abu-Jamal
Biographic Data
| ID | 401182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mumia Abu-Jamal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mumia |
| FAMILY NAME | Abu-Jamal |
| SIGNATURE | ABU-JAMAL M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Murder Incorporated - Perfecting Tyranny: Book Three
Writing on the wall: Selected prison writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
From the first slave writings to contemporary hip hop, the canon of African American literature offers a powerful counter-narrative to dominant notions of American culture, history, and politics. Resonant with voices of prophecy and resistance, the African American literary tradition runs deep with emancipatory currents that have had an indelible impact on the United States and the world. Mumia Abu-Jamal has been one of our most important contrib…
Locking Up Black Dissidents and Punishing the Poor: The Roots of Mass Incarceration in the US
This volume is a leap into the abyss that is the American Gulag. Our purpose is to explore the origins of the current system of carceral punishment, which began to mass-incarcerate poor and working
Prisoners of War
While the revered creator and abolitionist was doubtless addressing the barbaric treatment of four million of his people held in thralldom in the U.S. slave states, his voice resonates down through the corridors of time, touching and informing us as a new century dawns. At first blush, it may seem that Douglass was making reference to the horrific Civil War, but the dating sets his trenchant observation at fully a decade before the Confederates f…
Soyinka's Africa: Continent of Crisis, Conflict and Cradle of the Gods
A Life Lived, Deliberately: June 11, 1999 Evergreen State College Commencement Address
Prison Sentences
Review of Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing edited by Bell Gale Chevigny.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The Fictive Realism of John Edgar Wideman
(1998). The Fictive Realism of John Edgar Wideman. The Black Scholar: Vol. 28, Black Detective Fiction, pp. 75-79
Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience
A testament to the invincibility of the human spirit, this is a collection of short essays on nature, politics, culture, race and religion. The author examines the truest dimensions of existence
The Mother Tongue: Black English Revisited
Live from Death Row
"Mumia Abu-Jamal and the "Death Row Phenomenon
Live from Death Row
Awaiting execution for the murder of a Philadelphia policeman, the author describes the brutality and humiliation of prison life and argues that the justice system is racist and ruled by political expediency
Live from Death Row
Awaiting execution for the murder of a Philadelphia policeman, the author describes the brutality and humiliation of prison life and argues that the justice system is racist and ruled by political expediency
"Mumia Abu-Jamal and the "Death Row Phenomenon
Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience
A testament to the invincibility of the human spirit, this is a collection of short essays on nature, politics, culture, race and religion. The author examines the truest dimensions of existence
The Mother Tongue: Black English Revisited
Live from Death Row
The Fictive Realism of John Edgar Wideman
(1998). The Fictive Realism of John Edgar Wideman. The Black Scholar: Vol. 28, Black Detective Fiction, pp. 75-79
Prison Sentences
Review of Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing edited by Bell Gale Chevigny.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
A Life Lived, Deliberately: June 11, 1999 Evergreen State College Commencement Address
Prisoners of War
While the revered creator and abolitionist was doubtless addressing the barbaric treatment of four million of his people held in thralldom in the U.S. slave states, his voice resonates down through the corridors of time, touching and informing us as a new century dawns. At first blush, it may seem that Douglass was making reference to the horrific Civil War, but the dating sets his trenchant observation at fully a decade before the Confederates f…
Soyinka's Africa: Continent of Crisis, Conflict and Cradle of the Gods
Locking Up Black Dissidents and Punishing the Poor: The Roots of Mass Incarceration in the US
This volume is a leap into the abyss that is the American Gulag. Our purpose is to explore the origins of the current system of carceral punishment, which began to mass-incarcerate poor and working
Writing on the wall: Selected prison writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
From the first slave writings to contemporary hip hop, the canon of African American literature offers a powerful counter-narrative to dominant notions of American culture, history, and politics. Resonant with voices of prophecy and resistance, the African American literary tradition runs deep with emancipatory currents that have had an indelible impact on the United States and the world. Mumia Abu-Jamal has been one of our most important contrib…
Murder Incorporated - Perfecting Tyranny: Book Three
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · united states (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Death row inmates (3 works)