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ISBN-10: 0822370824
ISBN-13: 9780822370826
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 06/08/2018
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 0.50" H

Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State

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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.

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"Dillon's overall project returns a genealogy of antiprison politics to con-temporary queer theoretical debates on temporality, fugitivity, and desire. ... [His] text is thus not only a valuable contribution to Black feminist thought and queer studies but also a model for abolition itself."–Cameron Clark "GLQ" (6/1/2020 12:00:00 AM)
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ISBN-10: 0822370824
ISBN-13: 9780822370826
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 06/08/2018
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 0.50" H
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