Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era Animal Liberation “Crossing Bok Chitto is a

“Crossing Bok Chitto is a tribute to the Indians of every nation who aided the runaway people of bondage

and promise more private control and market mentality as the answer

the refusal to work

culminating in acts of genocide to maintain their culture and way of life

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Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era Animal Liberation “Crossing Bok Chitto is aby Dan Berger University of North Carolina Press 2014, paperback SKU: 9781469629797 In this path breaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression while arguing that confinement was an inescapable part of black life