Soledad Brother 500 to 1700

500 to 1700

University of South Florida This is the first full-length ethnography of a unique community within the African diaspora

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national culture and violence in the struggle for freedom

Soledad Brother 500 to 1700A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson's story