Tip of the Spear

Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-39632-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burton, Orisanmi

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE. THE LONG ATTICA REVOLT

1. Sharpening the Spear
Strategies and Tactics of Revolutionary Action

2. Black Solidarity Under Siege
Three Terrains of Protracted Rebellion

3. Attica Is
Revolutionary Consciousness and Abolitionist Worldmaking

PART TWO. PRISON PACIFICATION

4. Gender War
Sexual Revenge and White Masculine Repair

5. Hidden War
Four Strategies of Reformist Counterinsurgency

6. The War on Black Revolutionary Minds
Failed Experiments in Scientific Subjugation

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Orisanmi Burton is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University.