Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt
Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt
Burton, Orisanmi
product information
Condition: New, UPC: 9780520396326, Publication Date: Sun, October 1, 2023, Type: Paperback ,
join & start selling
description
tica," 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. 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. 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 and applying Black radical theory in ways that center the intellectual and political goals of the incarcerated people who led the struggle. Packed with little-known insights from the prison movement, the Black Panther Party, and the Black Liberation Army, Tip of the Spear promises to transform our understanding of prisons--not only as sites of race war and class war, of counterinsurgency and genocide, but also as sources of defiant Black life, revolutionary consciousness, and abolitionist possibility.

reviews

Be the first to write a review

member goods

No member items were found under this heading.

notems store

Scenes from Village Life

by Oz, Amos

Paperback /Paperback

$10.62

American Arcade; or, How To ...

by Samuels, Steven

Hardcover /Hardcover

$18.71

listens & views

GOOD OLD WATER

by MATTY POP CHART

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$10.49

BUSCANDO AQUELLA CIUDAD

by PEREGRINOS Y EXTRANJEROS

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$12.25

PEACE LOVE & JUSTICE

by JALPO FAMILY

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$16.49

Return Policy

All sales are final

Shipping

No special shipping considerations available.
Shipping fees determined at checkout.
promoting relevance through notable postings ]
share it, buy it, sell it ]

A notem is a post that highlights an experience, idea, topic of interest, an event ... whatever a member believes worthy of discussion. Each notem becomes a pathway by which to make meaningful connections.

notems is a free, global social network that rewards members by the number and quality of notems they post.

notemote® © . Privacy Policy. Developed by Hartmann Software Group