{"product_id":"beneath-the-mountain","title":"Beneath the Mountain \/\/ An Anti-Prison Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssential radical texts by enslaved, jailed, and imprisoned Americans, edited by renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and activist-scholar Jennifer Black.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Filled with insight and energy, this extraordinary book gifts us the opportunity to encounter people's understanding of the fight for freedom from the inside out.\"\u003cb\u003e--Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGolden Gulag\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbolition Geography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Martin Luther King told us what he saw when he went to the mountaintop....But there's also the foot of the mountain, and there are also the regions beneath the surface. I want to try to tell you a little something about those regions.\"\u003cb\u003e--Angela Y. Davis, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngela Davis: An Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeneath the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a reader's guide for understanding the evolution of anti-prison tenets. This essential core of primary texts provides an arc of insurgent writings by dissidents and revolutionaries who experienced incarceration and state terror first-hand. With contributions from John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and Crazy Horse, to Assata Shakur, Malcolm X, and Leonard Peltier, it also includes a previously unpublished communiqué from Angela Davis, written from jail at the time when she was forging the anti-prison critique that has since inspired a national movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeneath the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoffers a record of the historic foundations for the contemporary abolition movement. What emerges from these texts is an emancipatory vision that inspires the work being done today, a vision centered on organizing and solidarity as an antidote to repression. An invaluable resource for readers on both sides of prison walls, this compendium of resistance and hard-won vision will be essential to all who seek to develop an abolitionist critique and to further an understanding of the nature of repression and liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMumia Abu-Jamal\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, broadcast journalist, and internationally recognized human rights activist. The author of thirteen books, Abu-Jamal holds a Master's degree in Comparative Literature and is currently working on his PhD in the History of Consciousness Department at University of California Santa Cruz. He is a political prisoner serving a life sentence, incarcerated at SCI Mahoney State Prison, Frackville, PA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Black\u003c\/strong\u003e holds a PhD in Comparative Studies from The Ohio State University where she taught for 12 years. Her research focuses on high-risk activism, state terror, criminal injustice, mass incarceration, and social movement theory. Black hails from a background in both academia and activism and has been collaborating on these two fronts with Abu-Jamal since 1993. She is based in State College, PA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: City Lights Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublish Date: July 16, 2024\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 496\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eType: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEAN\/UPC: 9780872869264\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 8.2 X 5.5 X 1.5 inches | 1.1 pounds\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBISAC Categories: Politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Mumia Abu-Jamal","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48234590699755,"sku":"9780872869264","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/4014\/9820\/files\/9780872869264.jpg?v=1778335639","url":"https:\/\/rep.club\/products\/beneath-the-mountain","provider":"Reparations Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}