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Our Class

By Chris Hedges

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Our Class

By Chris Hedges

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A powerfully moving book that “could make graspable why today’s prisons are contemporary slave plantations” (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple), giving voice to the poorest among us and laying bare the cruelty of a penal system that too often defines their lives. A searing look at mass incarceration, prison education, and criminal justice reform, it offers a human portrait of those too often ignored by American society. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges has taught courses in drama, literature, philosophy, and history since 2013 in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University at East Jersey State Prison and other New Jersey prisons. In his first class at East Jersey State Prison, where students read and discussed plays by Amiri Baraka and August Wilson, among others, his class set out to write a play of their own. In writing the play, Caged, which would run for a month in 2018 to sold-out audiences at The Passage Theatre in Trenton, New Jersey, and later be published, students gave words to the grief and suffering they and their families have endured, as well as to their hopes and dreams. The class’s artistic and personal discovery, as well as transformation, is chronicled in heartbreaking detail in Our Class. This “magnificent” (Cornel West, author of Race Matters) book gives a human face and a voice to those our society too often demonizes and abandons. It exposes the terrible crucible and injustice of America’s penal system and the struggle by those trapped within its embrace to live lives of dignity, meaning, and purpose.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2022-10-11
Publication Date:
2022-10-11
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1982154446
ISBN13:
9781982154448
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
268 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
209 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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