"Connecting Community and Academic Activism Workshop Series"
Local Resources and Projects
Quaker House, 931 N 5th Ave, Tucson
(520)623-9141, fax: (520)623-5901
"The American Friends Service Committee is a national Quaker organization
which includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice,
peace, and humanitarian service. Its work is based on the Quaker belief
in the worth of every person, and faith in the power of love to overcome
violence and injustice. Nationally, AFSC focuses on creating positive change
in four areas: Social Justice, Economic Justice, Peace and Demilitarization,
and Youth."
Locally, AFSC has subcommittees working on the following issues:
The AFSC has internship opportunities and will work with instructors or
researchers on various projects for course curricula or research projects.
Currently, for example, a graduate student is working closely with the
Prisons Concerns project to develop research to aid grassroots activism
around privatized immigrant prisons in the state. The research will become
part of the grad student's dissertation project. Another instructor is
working with AFSC to develop course content that incorporates the expertise
and experience of AFSC activists.
Readings and resources relevant to this project (ideas for course content
connections)
A very partial list and starting point for resources. Please contribute
materials to this site! Until I have an interactive form up here, please
email me links (danika@u.arizona.edu).
Books
Prison Concerns
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Howard S. Davidson, Ed. Schooling in a "Total Institution":Critical
Perspectives on Prison Education. Education and Culture Series, Critical
Studies in (ISSN: 1064-8615) Bergin & Garvey. Westport, Conn. 1995.
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Kidd, Dustin. "O-AOL:
The Other-America On-Line; Correctional Power Codes on the Web" Online
at: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dk4z/literature/o_opening.htm
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Rosenblatt, Elihu. Criminal Injustice: Confronting the Prison Crisis.
Boston, MA : South End Press, 1996.
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Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
Tr. by Alan Sheridan. New York: Pantheon
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Books, 1977. French original, 1975.
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Davis, Angela. The Prison Industrial Complex CD. Spoken Word.
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Davis, Angela. "Masked
Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex." ColorLines.
online at http://home.ican.net/~edtoth/lawprisonrace.html
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Bates, Eric. "Private
Prisons." The Nation. online at http://past.thenation.com/issue/980105/0105bate.htm
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Erhlich, Reese. "Prison
Labor: Workin' for the Man." online at http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/%7Ekastor/private/prison-labor.html
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Globalization
Related Activist Film Projects and Grassroots Media Groups
Prison Concerns
Bibliographies and primary resources
Prison Concerns
Sample Syllabi
Prison Concerns