UID:
almahu_9949481231702882
Format:
1 online resource (248 p.)
ISBN:
9780520390430
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9783110993899
Content:
This highly original story reflects on how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people-and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future. Joy and Pain is about a young man, Marley, and a particular place, the Southern California Library-an archive of radical and progressive movements and a community organization where the author meets Marley. Taking music as its thematic undercurrent, the book is structured as a ";record collection."; Each of the five ";albums"; relates Marley's personal encounters with everyday aspects of the carceral state through an ethnographic A side and then offers deeper context through an anthropological and archival B side. In telling Marley's story, Damien M. Sojoyner depicts the overwhelming nature of Black precarity in the twenty-first century through the lenses of housing, education, health care, social services, and juvenile detention facilities. But Black life is not defined by precarity; it must embrace social visions of radical freedom that allow the cultivation of a life of joy beyond systems of oppression. In Joy and Pain, we see how Marley's experience intersects with history and the contemporary political moment-Black knowledge production, Black liberation movements, community-based organizing-to imagine expansive futures.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction: Look at California --
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Album 1 Hidden in Plain Sight --
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A side A Place Called Home --
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B Side: Manufacturing a Problem --
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Album 2: the heart of rebellion --
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A Side: A True Education --
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B Side: Watts to the Future --
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Album 3: all that glitters --
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A Side: Nonprofit Management --
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B Side: All Power to the People --
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Album 4: cruel and beautiful --
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A Side: Shelter from Paradise --
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B Side: Socialist Visions --
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Album 5: Liberatory vibes --
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A Side: Freedom Ain't Free --
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B Side: The Price of Freedom --
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Closing Note: Freedom on the Mind --
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Grounding materials --
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Works cited --
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Illustration Credits --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
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In:
University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766493
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520390430
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520390430?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780520390430
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