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Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt w/ Orisanmi Burton
- April 9 @ 7:00 PM
- until 8:00 PM
- Pilsen Community Books
- 1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL
- 1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL
@pilsencommunitybooks is excited to welcome Orisanmi Burton, Damon Locks, and Maryan Kashani to the store for a discussion of Dr. Burton's new book Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt. Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With this book, Orisanmi Burton explores what he terms the Long Attica Revolt, a criminalized tradition of Black radicalism that propelled rebellions in New York prisons during the 1970s. The reaction to this revolt illuminates what Burton calls prison pacification: the coordinated tactics of violence, isolation, sexual terror, propaganda, reform, and white supremacist science and technology that state actors use to eliminate Black resistance within and beyond prison walls.