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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1. Verfasser: Alexander, William 1938-2019 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press [2010]
University of Michigan Library [2010]
Schriftenreihe:The new public scholarship series
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 296 Seiten, 16 unnumbered Seiten of plates) illustrations (some color)
ISBN:0472027441
0472900374
128288297X
9780472027446
9780472900374
9781282882973
Zugangseinschränkungen:Open Access

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