{"product_id":"tip-of-the-spear-black-radicalism-prison-repression-and-the-long-attica-revolt-hardcover","title":"Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOrisanmi Burton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA radical reinterpretation of \"Attica,\" the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and transformed prisons.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTip of the Spear\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Burton goes beyond the state records that other histories have relied on for the story of Attica and expands that archive, drawing on oral history and applying Black radical theory in ways that center the intellectual and political goals of the incarcerated people who led the struggle. Packed with little-known insights from the prison movement, the Black Panther Party, and the Black Liberation Army, \u003ci\u003eTip of the Spear\u003c\/i\u003e promises to transform our understanding of prisons--not only as sites of race war and class war, of counterinsurgency and genocide, but also as sources of defiant Black life, revolutionary consciousness, and abolitionist possibility.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrisanmi Burton takes narrative and analysis to another level. His scholarship comprehends resistance with a nuance that I have not seen delivered by most academics.--Joy James, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Pursuit of Revolutionary Love\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew Bones Abolition\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eTip of the Spear \u003c\/i\u003etransforms our understanding of prison rebellion. In so doing, the book offers a stunning contribution to Black radical thought and abolitionist scholarship and politics. Exquisitely researched and argued, this is a must-read.\"--Sarah Haley, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In this meticulously researched and beautifully written book, Burton presents one of the most dynamic accounts of Black revolutionary struggle against the prison industrial complex to date. Burton centers Black radical action as the hub of knowledge production to explain the function, implementation, and logic of the carceral apparatus over the past fifty years. Powerfully arguing against the ill-conceived notion of Black revolt as spontaneous and state violence as the happenstance of misguided policy, Burton carefully takes the reader through a rigorously developed source map to understand the breadth and depth of prisons within the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With a brilliant array of methodological, conceptual, and theoretical interventions, \u003ci\u003eTip of the Spear\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read and is fundamental to the study of prisons and movements against prisons.\"--Damien Sojoyner, author of \u003ci\u003eJoy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOrisanmi Burton\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53756060303693,"sku":"9780520396319","price":189.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/INkPt7j6D79780520396319.webp?v=1776721985","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/tip-of-the-spear-black-radicalism-prison-repression-and-the-long-attica-revolt-hardcover","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}