Is William Martinez not our brother? twenty years of the Prison Creative Arts Project
Prisons are an invisible, but dominant, part of American society: the United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world. In Michigan, the number of prisoners rose from 3,000 in 1970 to more than 50,000 by 2008, a shift that Buzz Alexander witnessed firsthand when he came to t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor
University of Michigan Press
2010, [2010]
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| Series: | The new public scholarship series
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Prisons are an invisible, but dominant, part of American society: the United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world. In Michigan, the number of prisoners rose from 3,000 in 1970 to more than 50,000 by 2008, a shift that Buzz Alexander witnessed firsthand when he came to teach at the University of Michigan. Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? describes the University of Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), a pioneering program founded in 1990 that provides university courses, a nonprofit organization, and a national network for incarcerated youth and adults in Michigan juvenile facilities and prisons. By giving incarcerated individuals an opportunity to participate in the arts, PCAP enables them to withstand and often overcome the conditions and culture of prison, the policies of an incarcerating state, and the consequences of mass incarceration. -- Provided by publisher |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color) |
| ISBN: | 0472071092 9780472051090 9780472071098 0472051091 128288297X |