The Prison Industrial Complex

by Angela Davis

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 14 December 1999
  • Label: AK Press
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 52:39
  • Community rating: 3.81/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'The Prison Industrial Complex' records Angela Davis's spoken analysis of the American prison system, delivered in lectures of the late 1990s. The political philosopher and former Black Panther connects mass incarceration to the economics of punishment, in the speech form that made the recording a document of abolitionist thought.

Genres

Descriptors: political, monologue, socialism, vocal, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. On Becoming An Activist (3:36)
  2. Race, Class And Incarceration (2:34)
  3. Young Black Men And Prison (2:23)
  4. Technologies Of Punishment (2:07)
  5. The Specter Of Crime (3:07)
  6. Political Persecution (2:37)
  7. Enemies Are Needed (2:21)
  8. Targeting Women (1:30)
  9. Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric (4:27)
  10. Nike (5:00)
  11. The War On Drugs (2:45)
  12. Corporations And Patterns Of Immigration (2:21)
  13. The Prison Industrial Complex (3:47)
  14. Making A Difference (3:16)
  15. Who Pays, Who Plays (2:37)
  16. What Is To Be Done? (5:39)
  17. Breaking The Silence (2:32)

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