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Preface: The American Archipelago
The contemporary world’s work has become policing, halting, forming policy regarding, and trying to administer the movement of people. Nationhood—the very definition of citizenship—is constantly being demarcated and redemarcated in response to exiles, refugees, Gastarbeiter, immigrants, migrations, the displaced, the fleeing, and the besieged. The anxiety of belonging is entombed within the central metaphors in the discourse on globalism, transnationalism, nationalism, the break-up of federations, the rescheduling of alliances, and the fictions of sovereignty. Yet these figurations of nationhood and identity are frequently as raced themselves as the originating racial house that defined them. When they are not raced they are . . . imaginary landscape, never inscape; Utopia, never home. —TONI MORRISON, “HOME”
Contents
Preface: The American Archipelago xi
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction: Violations 3
joy james
I. Insurgent Knowledge
1. The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal 23
frank b. wilderson iii
2. Forced Passages 35
dylan rodríguez
3. Sorrow: The Good Soldier and the Good Woman 58
joy james
4. War Within: A Prison Interview 76
dhoruba bin wahad
5. Domestic Warfare: A Dialogue 98
marshall eddie conway
6. Soledad Brother and Blood in My Eye (Excerpts) 122
george jackson
7. The Masked Assassination 140
michel foucault, catherine von bülow, daniel defert, translation and introduction by sirène harb
8. A Century of Colonialism: One Hundred Years of Puerto Rican Resistance 161
oscar lópez rivera
II. Policing and Prison Technologies
9. Racial Profiling and the Societies of Control 197
jared sexton
10. Jihadis in the Hood: Race, Urban Islam, and the War on Terror 219
hishaam aidi
11. The Effects of Repression on Women in Prison 238
marilyn buck
12. Ponderings from the Eternal Now 250
carol gilbert, o.p.
13. Resisting the Ordinary 273
laura whitehorn (with susie day)
14. Cultures of Torture 290
william f. pinar
15. Katrina’s Unnatural Disaster: A Tragedy of Black Suffering and White Denial 305
manning marable
Bibliography 315
Contributors 333
Permissions 337
Index 339