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Bird uncaged : an abolitionist's freedom song
- Title
- Bird uncaged : an abolitionist's freedom song / Marlon Peterson.
- Author
- Peterson, Marlon
- Publication
- New York : Bold Type Books, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- xi, 208 pages : illustration; 22 cm
- Summary
- A leading advocate for prison abolition and transformative justice shares insights from the author's firsthand experiences of growing up in a violent neighborhood and surviving a brutal incarceration.
- Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights, raised by Trinidadian immigrants. Amid the routine violence that shaped his neighborhood, he saw the specter of the American dream opening up before him. But in the aftermath of immense trauma, he participated in a robbery that resulted in two murders. Nineteen, Peterson was charged, convicted and served ten years in prison. Immersing himself in anti-violence activism, education, and prison abolition work, he uncovered the ages of daily violence and trauma of poverty, and the brutality of incarceration. Peterson demands a shift from punishment to healing, and a new vision of justice. -- adapted from jacket
- Subject
- Peterson, Marlon
- 2000-2099
- African American social reformers > Biography
- African American political activists > Biography
- African American civil rights workers > Biography
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Racial justice
- African American social reformers
- Justice
- Social conditions
- United States > Social conditions > 21st century
- United States > Race relations > 21st century
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Hiding -- Move on -- Losing my religion -- Dash -- Okay -- 911 -- 9/11 -- Sponge -- Freeish -- Bridging the gap -- Decarcerated -- Pens from the pen -- Un-American and free.
- Call Number
- Sc D 22-85
- ISBN
- 9781645036517
- 1645036510
- LCCN
- 2020952599
- OCLC
- 1245497441
- Author
- Peterson, Marlon, author.
- Title
- Bird uncaged : an abolitionist's freedom song / Marlon Peterson.
- Publisher
- New York : Bold Type Books, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 22-85