
Assata Taught Me
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Black Panther and Cuban exile, Assata Shakur, has inspired multiple generations of radical protest, including our contemporary Black Lives Matter movement. Drawing its title from one of America's foremost revolutionaries, this collection of thought-provoking essays by award-winning Panther scholar Donna Murch explores how social protest is challenging our current system of state violence and mass incarceration.
Murch exposes the devastating consequences of overlapping punishment campaigns against gangs, drugs, and crime on poor and working-class populations of color. Through largely hidden channels, it is these punishment campaigns, Murch says, that generate enormous revenues for the state. Under such difficult conditions, organized resistance to the advancing tide of state violence and incarceration has proved difficult.
This timely and urgent book shows how a youth-led political movement has emerged since the killing of Trayvon Martin that challenges the bi-partisan consensus on punishment and looks to the future through a redistributive, queer, and feminist lens. Murch frames the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement in relation to earlier struggles for Black Liberation, while excavating the origins of mass incarceration and the political economy that drives it.
Assata Taught Me offers a fresh and much-needed historical perspective on the fifty years since the founding of the Black Panther Party, in which the world's largest police state has emerged.
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Donna Murch is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and sits on the Executive Council of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT.She is the author of Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (University of North Carolina Press).
Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- BLACK POWER AND BLACK RADICALISM
- 1: The Campus and the Street: Race, Migration, and the Origins of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California
- 2: Black Liberation and 1968
- STATE VIOLENCE AND THE WAR(S) ON CRIME
- 3: Who's to Blame for Mass Incarceration?
- 4: Crack in Los Angeles: Black Response to the Late Twentieth-Century War on Drugs
- 5: The Clintons' War on Drugs: When Black Lives Didn't Matter
- RACIAL CAPITALISM AND BLACK LIVES
- 6: Ferguson's Inheritance
- 7: Paying for Punishment
- 8: How Race Made the Opioid Crisis
- 9: The Movement for Black Lives: A Retrospective Look from 2021
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover
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