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 |
Table of Contents:
- The beginning
- Is William Martinez not our brother?
- The University courses
- The Workshops
- A Matter of Language
- This is our bridge ... and we built it ourselves : The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners
- Is the Scapegoat Not Our Brother?
- The Prison Creative Arts Project : crafted out of newspaper, modge podge, paint, and glitter
- Failure
- The PCAP Associates : places like Rwanda
- Includes bibliographical references and index