Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt Burton Orisanmi
Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt Burton Orisanmi A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist…
Specifikacia Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt Burton Orisanmi
Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt Burton Orisanmi
A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and transformed prisons.Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. The reaction to this revolt illuminates what Burton calls prison pacification: the coordinated tactics of violence, isolation, sexual terror, propaganda, reform, and white supremacist science and technology that state actors use to eliminate Black resistance within and beyond prison walls.Burton goes beyond the state records that other histories have relied on for the story of Attica and expands that archive, drawing on oral history With this book, Orisanmi Burton explores what he terms the Long Attica Revolt, a criminalized tradition of Black radicalism that propelled rebellions in New York prisons during the 1970s.