Rebel Speak

A Justice Movement Mixtape Volume 2
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-520-38843-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 312 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 588 g

Reihe: California Series in Hip Hop Studies

A literary mixtape of transformative dialogues on justice with a cast of visionary rebel activists, organizers, artists, culture workers, thought leaders, and movement builders.

Rebel Speak sounds the alarm for a global movement to end systemic injustice led by people doing the day-to-day rebel work in the prison capital of the world. Prison activist, artist, and scholar Bryonn Rolly Bain brings us transformative oral history ciphers, rooted in the tradition of call-and-response, to lay bare the struggle and sacrifice on the front lines of the fight to abolish the prison industrial complex.Rebel Speak investigates the motives that inspire and sustain movements for visionary change. Sparked by a life-changing interview with working-class heroes Dolores Huerta and Harry Belafonte, Bryonn invites us to join conversations with change-makers whose diverse critical perspectives and firsthand accounts expose the crisis of prisons and policing in our communities. Through dialogues with activists including Albert Woodfox, founder of the first Black Panther Party prison chapter, and Susan Burton, founder of Los Angeles's A New Way of Life Reentry Project; a conversation with a warden pushing beyond traditions at Sing Sing Correctional Facility; and an intimate exchange with his brother returning from prison, Bryonn reveals countless unseen spaces of the movement to end human caging. Sampling his provocative sessions with influential artists and culture workers, like Public Enemy leader Chuck D and radical feminist MC Maya Jupiter, Bryonn opens up and guides discussions about the power of art and activism to build solidarity across disciplines and demand justice.With raw insight and radical introspection, Rebel Speak embodies the growing call for "credible messengers" on prisons, policing, racial justice, abolitionist politics, and transformative organizing. Reimagining the role of the writer and scholar as a DJ and MC, Bryonn moves the crowd with this unforgettable mix of those working within the belly of the beast to change the world. This is a new century's sound of movement-building and Rebel Speak.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bain, Bryonn Rolly

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Angela Davis

Prologue. Criminal Minded: The Hip Hop Roots of the Critical Race Rebellion

Track #1. The Blueprint

The Radical Solidarity of Dolores Huerta and Harry Belafonte

Track #2. Panther Rising
How Albert Woodfox Survived Four Decades in Solitary

Track #3. 21st Century Harriet Tubman
A Dialogue with Susan Burton

Track #4. Critical Justice
Mass Incarceration, Mental Health, and Trauma

Track #5. Beyond the Bars

Jennifer Claypool and Wendy Staggs on Life after Lockdown

Track #6. Fear of a Black Movement
Public Enemy's Chuck D Fights the Power Thirty Years Strong—A Dialogue with Alicia Virani

Track #7. Live from Juvi
The Artivism of Maya Jupiter and Aloe Blacc—A Dialogue with Rosa M. Rios

Track #8. Trap Classics
Who's Capitalizing on Cannabis and Incarceration?

Track #9. Sing Sing Blues

Reflections of a Street Cop Turned Warden

Track #10. Homecoming

Returning from Prison in a Pandemic—A Dialogue with Cheyenne Michael Simpson

Acknowledgments
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bryonn Rolly Bain is a prison activist, artist, scholar, and author of four books including The Ugly Side of Beautiful: Rethinking Race and Prison in America. Learn more about his critically acclaimed hip hop theater and spoken word multimedia production, Lyrics from Lockdown, and his Emmy Award–winning work on LA Stories, at www.bryonn.com.