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Prison Power
Lisa M. Corrigan
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University Press of Mississippi 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
Winner of the 2017 Diamond Anniversary Book Award and the African American Communication and Culture Division's 2017 Outstanding Book Award, both from the National Communication Association
In the Black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource. Imprisoned activists developed tactics and ideology to counter white supremacy. Lisa M. Corrigan underscores how imprisonment—a site for both political and personal transformation—shaped movement leaders by influencing their political analysis and organizational strategies. Prison became
the critical space for the transformation from civil rights to Black Power, especially as southern civil rights activists faced setbacks.
Black Power activists produced autobiographical writings, essays, and letters about and from prison beginning with the early sit-in movement. Examining the iconic prison autobiographies of H. Rap Brown, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Assata Shakur, Corrigan conducts rhetorical analyses of these extremely popular though understudied accounts of the Black Power movement. She introduces the notion of the “Black Power vernacular” as a term for the prison memoirists' rhetorical innovations, to explain how the movement adapted to an increasingly hostile environment in both the Johnson and Nixon administrations.
Through prison writings, these activists deployed narrative features supporting certain tenets of Black Power, pride in Blackness, disavowal of nonviolence, identification with the Third World, and identity strategies focused on Black masculinity. Corrigan fills gaps between Black Power historiography and prison studies by scrutinizing the rhetorical forms and strategies of the Black Power ideology that arose from prison politics. These discourses demonstrate how Black Power activism shifted its tactics to regenerate, even after the FBI sought to disrupt, discredit, and destroy the movement.
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Fannie Lou Hamer, Black Liberation Army, white supremacy, Huey Newton, death penalty, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, Black Panther Party, confrontation, Assata, Third World, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Police Brutality, CIVIL RIGHTS, Civil Rights Act, mass incarceration, badman, Black Power, COINTELPRO, PRISONS, law and order, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES, Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Stokely Carmichael, FBI, civil disobedience, Birmingham, Alabama, Ronald Reagan, Grant Farred, Albany movement, Ekwueme Michael Thewell, ETHNIC STUDIES, Martin Luther King Jr., Angela Davis, identity, SNCC, Shakur, vernacular, BLACK POWER, desegregation, SCLC, Malcolm X, rhetoric, COMMUNICATIONS, H. Rap Brown, Black liberation movement