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Rebel speak : a justice movement mixtape / Bryonn Rolly Bain

Author
Bain, Bryonn
Published
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Physical Description
xxxviii, 270 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

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Contents
Foreword / by Angela Y. 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 federal prison in a pandemic, a dialogue with Cheyenne Michael Simpson.
Summary
"A literary mixtape of transformative dialogues on justice with a cast of visionary rebel activists, organizers, artists, culture workers, thought leaders, and movement builders. Rebel Speak sounds 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 scholar Bryonn Rolly Bain brings us transformative oral 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 Speak investigates the motives that inspire and sustain movements for visionary change. Sparked by a life-changing interview with working-class heroes Dolores Huerta and Harry Belafonte, Bryonn invites us to join conversations with 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 first Black Panther Party prison chapter, and Susan Burton, founder of Los Angeles's A 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, Bryonn reveals countless unseen spaces of the movement to end human caging. Sampling his provocative sessions with influential artists and culture workers, like Public Enemy leader Chuck D and radical feminist MC Maya Jupiter, Bryonn opens 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 Speak embodies the growing call for 'credible messengers' on prisons, policing, racial justice, abolitionist politics, and transformative organizing. Reimagining the role of the writer and scholar as a DJ and MC, Bryonn moves the crowd with this unforgettable mix of those working within the belly of the beast to change the world. This is a new century's sound of movement-building and Rebel Speak"--
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9780520388437 hardcover
0520388437 hardcover
Note
"Foreword by Angela Y. Davis" -- from cover.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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