Fugitive Life
Title | Fugitive Life PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Dillon |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2018-06-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0822371898 |
During the 1970s in the United States, hundreds of feminist, queer, and antiracist activists were imprisoned or became fugitives as they fought the changing contours of U.S. imperialism, global capitalism, and a repressive racial state. In Fugitive Life Stephen Dillon examines these activists' communiqués, films, memoirs, prison writing, and poetry to highlight the centrality of gender and sexuality to a mode of racialized power called the neoliberal-carceral state. Drawing on writings by Angela Davis, the George Jackson Brigade, Assata Shakur, the Weather Underground, and others, Dillon shows how these activists were among the first to theorize and make visible the links between conservative "law and order" rhetoric, free market ideology, incarceration, sexism, and the continued legacies of slavery. Dillon theorizes these prisoners and fugitives as queer figures who occupied a unique position from which to highlight how neoliberalism depended upon racialized mass incarceration. In so doing, he articulates a vision of fugitive freedom in which the work of these activists becomes foundational to undoing the reign of the neoliberal-carceral state.
The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave
Title | The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave PDF eBook |
Author | John Thompson |
Publisher | Wentworth Press |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1856 |
Genre | History |
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Gringo
Title | Gringo PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Conti |
Publisher | Full Court Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2016-11-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781938812842 |
The vivid account of a charming rogue who evaded capture for thirteen years as an international fugitive from U.S. law enforcement after being set up by a childhood friend for a crime he didn't commit.
Fugitive Days
Title | Fugitive Days PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Ayers |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780807032770 |
Bill Ayers was born into privilege and is today a highly respected educator. In the late 1960s he was a young pacifist who helped to found one of the most radical political organizations in U.S. history, the Weather Underground. In a new era of antiwar activism and suppression of protest, his story, Fugitive Days, is more poignant and relevant than ever.
I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!
Title | I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! PDF eBook |
Author | Robert E. Burns |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2011-08-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0820343013 |
I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years' hard labor for his part in a robbery that netted less than $6.00, Burns was shackled to a county chain gang. After four months of backbreaking work, he made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north. For seven years Burns lived as a free man. He married and became a prosperous Chicago businessman and publisher. When he fell in love with another woman, however, his jealous wife turned him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. Although he was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, he was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932. The book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia's brutal treatment of prisoners. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a daring and heartbreaking book, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, adventure, and, above all, the unshakable courage and inner strength of the fugitive himself.
Slave Life in Georgia
Title | Slave Life in Georgia PDF eBook |
Author | Brown |
Publisher | |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1855 |
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David Janssen - My Fugitive
Title | David Janssen - My Fugitive PDF eBook |
Author | Ellie Janssen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2015-04-20 |
Genre | Actors |
ISBN | 9780988777859 |
An intimate profile of the iconic Hollywood Actor, DAVID JANSSEN, by his first wife, ELLIE JANSSEN, as told to Michael Phelps.