New Abolitionists

Joy James is the John B. and John T. McCoy Presidential Professor of Humanities and College Professor in Political Science at Williams College. She is the author of Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture, and her edited works on incarceration and human rights include States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons and Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion.

• Preface Acknowledgments Pancho AguilaFolsom, August 11th: A Question of Races Introduction Joy JamesDemocracy and Captivity Part I: Penal Democracy 1. Dachine Rainer and Holley CantinePrison Etiquette 2. Bernard PhillipsNotes on the Prison Community 3. Jalil MuntaqimThe Criminalization of Poverty in Capitalist America (Abridged) 4. Bill DunneControl Unit Prisons: Deceit and Folly in Modern Dungeons 5. Raymond Luc Levasseur Trouble Coming Every Day: ADX—The First Year 6. Paul St. JohnBehind the Mirror's Face 7. Tiyo Attallah Salah-ElA Call for the Abolition of Prisons Part II: Gendered Captivity 8. Assata ShakurWomen in Prison: How We Are 9. Susan RosenbergWomen Casualties of the Drug War 10. Angela Y. DavisReflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves (Abridged) 11. Prince Imari A. Obadele (Shemuel ben-Yahweh) Killers 12. Ed MeadMen Against Sexism Part III: Revolt 13. Little Rock ReedThe American Indian in the White Man's Prisons: A Story of Genocide 14. Imari Abubakari Obadele IA People's Revolt for Power and an Up-Turn in the Black Condition: An Appeal and a Challenge 15. Prince Imari A. Obadele (Shemuel ben-Yahweh) To My Baby's Children 16. Antonio Fernandez (King Tone)King Tone's Diary 17. Yaki (James Sayles)Let's "Gang-Up" on Oppression: Youth Organizations and the Struggle for Power in Oppressed Communities 18. Mumia Abu-JamalA Life Lived, Deliberately Part IV: Dialogues in Resistance (Interviews) 19. An Interview with Charles Baxter, Wayne Brown, Tony Chatman-Bey, H. B. Johnson Jr., Mark Medley, Donald Thompson, Selvyn Tillett, and John Woodland Jr. (with Drew Leder)Live from the Panopticon: Architecture and Power Revisited 20. An Interview with Angela Davis (with Leslie DiBenedetto)On Prisons and Prisoners 21. An Interview with George Jackson (with Karen Wald) 22. An Interview with Geronimo ji Jaga (Elmer Pratt) (with Heike Kleffner) 23. A Conversation with Viet Mike Ngo (with Dylan Rodríguez)"You Have to be Intimate with Your Despair" 24. An Interview with Marilyn Buck and Laura Whitehorn (with Susie Day)Cruel But Not Unusual—The Punishment of Women in U.S. Prisons 25. An Interview with Shaka Sankofa (Gary Graham)(with Larvester Gaither) 26. Alan Berkman on Prison Health Care (as told to Susie Day)Engaged in Life 27. An Interview with Philip Berrigan (with Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill)It's Too Bad the Soil Couldn't Cry Out from the Blood Shed Upon It Appendix 1: The Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Depression Platform Appendix 2: Attica: Thirty Years Later Selected Bibliography About the Editor Index