Rebel Speak (eBook)

A Justice Movement Mixtape

Bryonn Rolly Bain (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
312 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38845-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A literarymixtape of transformative dialogues on justice with a cast of visionary rebel activists, organizers,artists, culture workers, thought leaders, and movement builders.Rebel Speaksounds the alarm for a global movement to end systemic injustice led by people doing the day-to-day rebel work in the prison capital of the world. Prison activist, artist, and scholarBryonnRolly Bain brings us transformativeoral history ciphers, rooted in the tradition of call-and-response, to lay bare the struggle and sacrifice on the front lines of the fight to abolish the prison industrial complex.Rebel Speakinvestigates themotives that inspire and sustain movements for visionary change. Sparked by a life-changing interview with working-class heroes Dolores Huerta and Harry Belafonte,Bryonninvites us to join conversationswith change-makers whose diverse critical perspectives and firsthand accounts expose the crisis of prisons and policing in our communities.Through dialogues with activists including Albert Woodfox, founder of the firstBlack Panther Partyprison chapter, and Susan Burton, founder of Los AngelessA New Way of Life Reentry Project; a conversation with a warden pushing beyond traditions at Sing Sing Correctional Facility; and an intimate exchange with his brother returning from prison, Bryonnreveals countless unseen spaces of the movement to end human caging. Sampling his provocative sessions with influential artists and culture workers, likePublic Enemyleader Chuck D and radical feminist MC Maya Jupiter,Bryonnopens up and guides discussions about the power of art and activism to build solidarity across disciplines and demand justice.With raw insight and radical introspection,Rebel Speakembodies the growing call for credible messengerson prisons, policing, racial justice, abolitionist politics, and transformative organizing.Reimagining the role of the writer and scholar as a DJ and MC,Bryonnmoves the crowd with this unforgettable mix of those working within the belly of the beast to change the world. This is a new centurys sound of movement-building andRebel Speak.

Inhalt

Foreword by Angela Davis

Prologue. Criminal Minded: The Hip Hop Roots of the Critical Race Rebellion

Track #1. The Blueprint 
The Radical Solidarity of Dolores Huerta and Harry Belafonte

Track #2. Panther Rising
How Albert Woodfox Survived Four Decades in Solitary

Track #3. 21st Century Harriet Tubman
A Dialogue with Susan Burton

Track #4. Critical Justice
Mass Incarceration, Mental Health, and Trauma

Track #5. Beyond the Bars 
Jennifer Claypool and Wendy Staggs on Life after Lockdown

Track #6. Fear of a Black Movement
Public Enemy's Chuck D Fights the Power Thirty Years Strong—A Dialogue with Alicia Virani

Track #7. Live from Juvi
The Artivism of Maya Jupiter and Aloe Blacc—A Dialogue with Rosa M. Rios

Track #8. Trap Classics
Who's Capitalizing on Cannabis and Incarceration?

Track #9. Sing Sing Blues 
Reflections of a Street Cop Turned Warden

Track #10. Homecoming 
Returning from Prison in a Pandemic—A Dialogue with Cheyenne Michael Simpson

Acknowledgments
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.4.2022
• Reihe/Serie: California Series in Hip Hop Studies
• Reihe/Serie: California Series in Hip Hop Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: artist activist • Critical Race Studies • hip hop music • Imprisonment • Incarceration • liberation movements • Oral History • prison abolition • prison activism • Reform • Social Justice • System
• ISBN-10: 0-520-38845-3 / 0520388453
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38845-1 / 9780520388451