{"product_id":"beneath-the-mountain-an-anti-prison-reader-9780872869264","title":"Beneath the Mountain: An Anti-Prison Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssential radical texts by enslaved, jailed, and imprisoned Americans, edited by renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and activist-scholar Jennifer Black.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Filled with insight and energy, this extraordinary book gifts us the opportunity to encounter people's understanding of the fight for freedom from the inside out.\"\u003cb\u003e--Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of \u003ci\u003eGolden Gulag\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAbolition Geography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Martin Luther King told us what he saw when he went to the mountaintop....But there's also the foot of the mountain, and there are also the regions beneath the surface. I want to try to tell you a little something about those regions.\"\u003cb\u003e--Angela Y. Davis, author of \u003ci\u003eAngela Davis: An Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeneath the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e is a reader's guide for understanding the evolution of anti-prison tenets. This essential core of primary texts provides an arc of insurgent writings by dissidents and revolutionaries who experienced incarceration and state terror first-hand. With contributions from John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and Crazy Horse, to Assata Shakur, Malcolm X, and Leonard Peltier, it also includes a previously unpublished communiqu? from Angela Davis, written from jail at the time when she was forging the anti-prison critique that has since inspired a national movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeneath the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e offers a record of the historic foundations for the contemporary abolition movement. What emerges from these texts is an emancipatory vision that inspires the work being done today, a vision centered on organizing and solidarity as an antidote to repression. An invaluable resource for readers on both sides of prison walls, this compendium of resistance and hard-won vision will be essential to all who seek to develop an abolitionist critique and to further an understanding of the nature of repression and liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMumia Abu-Jamal\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, broadcast journalist, and internationally recognized human rights activist. The author of thirteen books, Abu-Jamal holds a Master's degree in Comparative Literature and is currently working on his PhD in the History of Consciousness Department at University of California Santa Cruz. He is a political prisoner serving a life sentence, incarcerated at SCI Mahoney State Prison, Frackville, PA. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Black \u003c\/b\u003eholds a PhD in Comparative Studies from The Ohio State University where she taught for 12 years. Her research focuses on high-risk activism, state terror, criminal injustice, mass incarceration, and social movement theory. Black hails from a background in both academia and activism and has been collaborating on these two fronts with Abu-Jamal since 1993. She is based in State College, PA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50708047593746,"sku":"9780872869264","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9e939215-1bdd-4d04-b515-09b08eb20fb7.jpg?v=1734505323","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beneath-the-mountain-an-anti-prison-reader-9780872869264","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}