Zoe A Colley – författare & böcker

Ain't Scared of Your Jail

Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement

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Imprisonment became a badge of honor for many protestors during the civil rights movement. With the popularization of expressions such as "jail-no-bail" and "jail-in," civil rights activists sought to transform arrest and imprisonment from something to be feared to a platform for the cause.

Beyond Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.''s "Letters from the Birmingham Jail," there has been little discussion on the incarceration experiences of civil rights activists. In her debut book, Zoe Colley does what no historian has done before by following civil rights activists inside the southern jails and prisons to explore their treatment and the different responses that civil rights organizations had to mass arrest and imprisonment.

Colley focuses on the shift in philosophical and strategic responses of civil rights protestors from seeing jail as something to be avoided to seeing it as a way to further the cause. Imprisonment became a way to expose the evils of segregation, and highlighted to the rest of American society the injustice of southern racism.

By drawing together the narratives of many individuals and organizations, Colley paints a clearer picture how the incarceration of civil rights activists helped shape the course of the movement. She places imprisonment at the forefront of civil rights history and shows how these new attitudes toward arrest continue to impact contemporary society and shape strategies for civil disobedience.

Ain't Scared of Your Jail

Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement

AvZoe A. Colley

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

206 kr

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In this book, Zoe Colley follows civil rights activists inside the southern jails and prisons to explore their treatment and the different responses that civil rights organizations had to mass arrest and imprisonment. While some found imprisonment to be an energizing or inspiring experience and celebrated jail-going as liberating and honorable, others struggled to find a positive value.By drawing together the narratives of many individuals and organizations, Colley places imprisonment at the forefront of civil rights history and shows how these attitudes toward arrest continue to impact contemporary society and shape strategies for civil disobedience.

Assumed Guilty

Black Power, Crime, and Justice

AvZoe A. Colley

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

1 581 kr

Kommande

Revealing how the fight against criminalization and incarceration became central to the Black Power movementAssumed Guilty examines the history of the Black Power movement through the lens of its sustained confrontation with the United States criminal justice system. Moving through decades of activism, from the Nation of Islam’s early battles against police brutality and incarceration in the 1950s to the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army in the 1960s and 1970s, Zoe Colley discusses how the movement understood law enforcement, courts, and prisons as instruments of racial control rather than neutral arbiters of justice.This book shows that as white power structures cast the Black Power movement as inherently criminal, Black Power activists inverted that logic, denouncing police, judges, and prison officials as the true perpetrators of violence and injustice. This counter-discourse, Colley argues, became central to Black Power ideology and strategy. Assumed Guilty offers a powerful reinterpretation of Black Power as a movement fundamentally shaped by its fight against criminalization—and by its insistence that justice could not exist where Blackness itself was treated as a crime.Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Assumed Guilty

Black Power, Crime, and Justice

AvZoe A. Colley

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

568 kr

Kommande

Revealing how the fight against criminalization and incarceration became central to the Black Power movementAssumed Guilty examines the history of the Black Power movement through the lens of its sustained confrontation with the United States criminal justice system. Moving through decades of activism, from the Nation of Islam’s early battles against police brutality and incarceration in the 1950s to the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army in the 1960s and 1970s, Zoe Colley discusses how the movement understood law enforcement, courts, and prisons as instruments of racial control rather than neutral arbiters of justice.This book shows that as white power structures cast the Black Power movement as inherently criminal, Black Power activists inverted that logic, denouncing police, judges, and prison officials as the true perpetrators of violence and injustice. This counter-discourse, Colley argues, became central to Black Power ideology and strategy. Assumed Guilty offers a powerful reinterpretation of Black Power as a movement fundamentally shaped by its fight against criminalization—and by its insistence that justice could not exist where Blackness itself was treated as a crime.Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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