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Free Download The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration by Frank Abe, Floyd Cheung
English | May 14, 2024 | ISBN: 0143133284 | 336 pages | PDF | 8.22 Mb
"An essential volume" -Hua Hsu, The New Yorker

Free Download The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGRYFTKY | 2024 | 9 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Frank Abe, Floyd Cheung
Narrator: Frank Abe, Keone Young, Ren Hanami, Traci Kato-Kiriyama, Greg Watanabe
The collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US government expelled resident aliens and its own citizens from their homes and imprisoned 125,000 of them in American concentration camps, based solely upon the race they shared with a wartime enemy. This anthology presents a new vision that recovers and reframes the literature produced by the people targeted by the actions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress to deny Americans of Japanese ancestry any individual hearings or other due process after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

Free Download Christophe Ringer, "Necropolitics: The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America "
English | ISBN: 1793626812 | 2022 | 161 pages | EPUB | 788 KB
Necropolitics: The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America explores the pernicious and persistent presence of mass incarceration in American public life. Christophe D. Ringer argues that mass incarceration persists largely because the othering and criminalization of Black people in times of crisis is a significant part of the religious meaning of America. This book traces representations from the Puritan era to the beginning of the War on Drugs in the 1980s to demonstrate their centrality in this issue, revealing how these images have become accepted as fact and used by various aspects of governance to wield the power to punish indiscriminately. Ringer demonstrates how these vilifying images contribute to racism and political economy, creating a politics of death that uses jails and prisons to conceal social inequalities and political exclusion.

Free Download Ronald Bishop, "Community Newspapers and the Japanese-American Incarceration Camps: Community, Not Controversy"
English | ISBN: 1498511074 | 2015 | 372 pages | EPUB | 1124 KB
Though much has been said about Japanese-American incarceration camps, little attention is paid to the community newspapers closest to the camps and how they constructed the identities and lives of the occupants inside. Dependent on government and military officials for information, these journalists rarely wrote about the violation of the evacuees’ civil rights. Instead, they concentrated on the economic impact the camps-and the evacuees, who would replace workers off to enlist in the military and work for defense contractors-would have on the areas they covered. Newspapers like the Cody Enterprise and Powell Tribune in Wyoming, the Lamar Daily News, and the Casa Grande Dispatch regularly published overly optimistic updates on the progress of construction, the size of the contractor payrolls, and the amount of materials used to build the camps. Ronald Bishop and his coauthors reveal how journalists positioned the incarceration camps as a potential economic boon and how evacuees were framed as another community group, there to contribute to the region’s economic well-being. Community Newspapers and the Japanese-American Incarceration Camps examines the rhetoric and journalistic approach of the local papers and how they informed the communities just outside their walls. This book will appeal to scholars of history and journalism.

Free Download Ernest Drucker, "A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America"
English | 2013 | pages: 241 | ISBN: 1595588795, 1595584978 | PDF | 2,9 mb
The public health expert and prison reform activist offers "meticulous analysis" on our criminal justice system and the plague of American incarceration (The Washington Post).

Free Download Uprising: Understanding Attica, Revolution, and the Incarceration State by Clarence B. Jones, Stuart Connelly, Brad Sanders
English | 2015 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00RY2HZRI | M4B@64 Kbps | Duration: 2:22 h | 64 Mb
In September 1971, the bloodiest prison riot in American history took place in sleepy upstate New York town of Attica. Yet most of that blood was spilled not by the inmates who took over Attica Correctional Facility during four desperate days, but by the state’s governor and future vice president Nelson Rockefeller.
This is the personal story of what those days were like, what went wrong, and how the tragedy at Attica holds up a mirror to America’s dark treatment of its prison population. Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly, the authors of the acclaimed memoir Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation, take on the most urgent and least understood civil rights issue of today’s society – prisoners’ rights. Jones, the reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s former attorney and draft speechwriter, now tells the personal story of his time battling and negotiating for the inmates’ survival as one of the observers and requested by the inmates during the rebellion. But Uprising: Understanding Attica, Revolution, and the Incarceration State goes beyond memoir – Jones and Connelly use Attica as a touchstone for a clear-eyed critique of what has gone wrong with America’s prison system over the last 40 years.