Organized Disorder: The New York City Jail Rebellion of 1970

Burton, Orisanmi

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“…Abolition in this frame is part of a “transcendental imperative [that] requires a type of Black self‐determination that begins with the end of this social world, which means the suspension of accepted modes of normative antiblack subjectivities, and ends with a beginning” (2018, 271). If this mode of abolition is focused on insurgency in the face of domestic warfare, the anthropological and archival work of Orisanmi Burton (2018) reminds us that we are late to the party: the jail rebellion that spread across New York City in 1970 prefigures many contemporary modes of forging solidarity across gender, sexuality, and race. By focusing on the successful organizing work of imprisoned men and women, Burton disrupts the narrative of exceptionality that can redact Black insurgency from our map of political possibility.…”

Section: Abolition‐as‐revolution: Confronting the Statementioning

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Abolition in the Clutch: Shifting through the Gears with Anthropology

Shange

2022

Feminist Anthropology

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Abolition is not a metaphor, and it is essential that our notion of "abolition" not get defanged and deracinated within the self-evident boundaries of a discipline or even the academy. Amidst the tangle of complicity that is anthropology, there are also parts of the disciplinary toolkit that are useful for worldmaking: listening deeply, bearing witness, challenging the inevitability of the state, and building deep transnational and cross-diasporic relation. In particular as surveillance, policing, and imprisonment become globalized as techniques of repression, anthropology can help disrupt UScentrism while cultivating thicker solidarities. In this essay, I draw on Chela Sandoval's theory of differential political consciousness to roughly sketch five interlocking ideology-praxes -five gears of abolition that at times are complementary, and at times contradictory. Within each gear, I lift up organizers and scholars whose work is shaping the theory and practice of abolition. Following the lead of activists, artists and movement builders, I invite academics to bring abolition home by contributing to ongoing campaigns happening on their campuses and in their neighborhoods.

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Abolition in the Clutch: Shifting through the Gears with Anthropology

Shange

2022

Feminist Anthropology

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“…War, argues Carl Von Clausewitz (1976, 75), is "an act of force to compel an enemy to do one's will." For decades, Black radical activists and critical prison studies scholars have analyzed the US carceral regime as, variously, "class warfare" against racialized surplus populations (Gilmore 2007(Gilmore , 2009(Gilmore , 2018, counterinsurgency warfare against political radicals (Berger 2014;Burton 2018;Camp 2016;Wahad, Abu-Jamal, and Shakur 1993), and racial genocide (Bukhari 2010;Jackson 1990;James 2003;Rodríguez 2020;Shakur 2001).…”

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Captivity, Kinship, and Black Masculine Care Work under Domestic Warfare

Burton

2021

American Anthropologist

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This article examines the forms of intergenerational kinship and care work that Black men perform within and beyond US prisons. First, I offer a historical conceptualization of domestic warfare as a multilayered process that targets Black radical activism, social/familial life, and the interiority of Black subjectivity. I argue that the rupturing of intimacy and familial relationships precipitated by the prison should be understood not as an incidental byproduct of a poorly designed carceral regime but as a tactic of war and a condition of genocide. Next, I theorize letter writing as an ethnographic and political modality that is part of a broader repertoire of strategies that Black men deploy to survive within and rebel against domestic war. I then draw on correspondence between myself and Absolute, an imprisoned Black man, as well as oral histories I collected with elders of New York's radical prison movement, to show how Black men care for each other, forge kinship networks, and transmit knowledge. I close by showing how Absolute carries on traditions of knowledge production and care to younger generations of captive Black men and by connecting this intergenerational practice to forms of collective rebellion. [prisons, kinship, Black masculinity, letters, warfare] RESUMEN Este artículo examina las formas de parentesco intergeneracional y el trabajo de cuidar que hombres negros desempeñan dentro y más allá de las prisiones de Estados Unidos. Primero, ofrezco una conceptualización histórica de la guerra doméstica como un proceso de múltiples niveles que va dirigido al activismo radical negro, vida

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Food and carcerality: From confinement to abolition

Reese

Sbicca

2022

Food and Foodways

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Organized Disorder: The New York City Jail Rebellion of 1970

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Abolition in the Clutch: Shifting through the Gears with Anthropology

Abolition in the Clutch: Shifting through the Gears with Anthropology

Captivity, Kinship, and Black Masculine Care Work under Domestic Warfare

Food and carcerality: From confinement to abolition

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