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"Orisanmi Burton takes narrative and analysis to another level. His scholarship comprehends resistance with a nuance that I have not seen delivered by most academics."--Joy James, author of
In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love and
New Bones Abolition "
Tip of the Spear transforms our understanding of prison rebellion. In so doing, the book offers a stunning contribution to Black radical thought and abolitionist scholarship and politics. Exquisitely researched and argued, this is a must-read."--Sarah Haley, author of
No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity "In this meticulously researched and beautifully written book, Burton presents one of the most dynamic accounts of Black revolutionary struggle against the prison industrial complex to date. Burton centers Black radical action as the hub of knowledge production to explain the function, implementation, and logic of the carceral apparatus over the past fifty years. Powerfully arguing against the ill-conceived notion of Black revolt as spontaneous and state violence as the happenstance of misguided policy, Burton carefully takes the reader through a rigorously developed source map to understand the breadth and depth of prisons within the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With a brilliant array of methodological, conceptual, and theoretical interventions,
Tip of the Spear is a must-read and is fundamental to the study of prisons and movements against prisons."--Damien Sojoyner, author of
Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums
Sommario
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE. THE LONG ATTICA REVOLT
1. Sharpening the Spear
Strategies and Tactics of Revolutionary Action
2. Black Solidarity Under Siege
Three Terrains of Protracted Rebellion
3. Attica Is
Revolutionary Consciousness and Abolitionist Worldmaking
PART TWO. PRISON PACIFICATION
4. Gender War
Sexual Revenge and White Masculine Repair
5. Hidden War
Four Strategies of Reformist Counterinsurgency
6. The War on Black Revolutionary Minds
Failed Experiments in Scientific Subjugation
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Orisanmi Burton is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University.
