Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime

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America's prisons have been transformed into primary sites of radical political discourse and resistance as they have become home to a growing number of writers, activists, poets, educators, and other intellectuals who offer radical critiques of American society both within and beyond the prison walls. Dylan Rodrguez argues that the cultural production of such imprisoned intellectuals should be understood as a social and intellectual movement in and of itself, unique in context and substance. He focuses on the conditions under which imprisoned intellectuals live and work, and he explores how incarceration shapes the ways in which insurgent knowledge is created, disseminated, and received.

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"Guided by the voices of the prisoners, Forced Passages provides a very valuable matrix to understand what it means to live in a society with so many people behind bars. Those voices, produced in the prison struggle, bear hope." - Vijay Prashad, author of Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, Workfare and The Karma of Brown Folk"

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Dylan Rodriguez is assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside.