My book "Carceral Apartheid"
It is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons. There is a particular power dynamic of racist intent in the prison system that culminates in what Brittany Friedman terms carceral apartheid. Prisons are a microcosm of how carceral apartheid operates as a larger governing strategy to decimate political targets and foster deceit, disinformation, and division in society. Brittany’s first book “Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons” explains how and why.
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The book to make sense of our society’s obsession with domination and control.
Early praise:
Reuben Jonathan Miller, MacArthur Fellow and author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
“Carceral Apartheid is a page-turning autopsy of white supremacy at work in our prisons and in our government, a social history of Black liberation movements, a genealogy of a murder, and a reckoning with the death-dealing consequences of our obsessions with prisons, punishment, and racial domination. There is certainly horror and abuse carefully documented across a trove of archives, but there is also hope and movement building and resistance in its pages. I could not put this book down. It will stay with me for a long time to come.”
Laurence Ralph, author of Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him and The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence
“A searing analysis of entrenched white supremacy written with unmatched clarity, urgency, and grace. This chilling account is an overdue reckoning with the pervasive racism that continues to scar our social world.”
Nicole Gonzalez VanCleve, author of Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court
“A pathbreaking work full of explosive findings on the coordination of white supremacy, corrections, policing, and the lies to cover it up.”
Michael L. Walker, author of Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail
“Brittany Friedman’s concept of carceral apartheid lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding racism within American prisons and the deployment of racism and empire as a governing strategy of society.”
Marissa Wells, L.A. Wave News
“Carceral Apartheid will no doubt be enjoyed by truth-tellers, social justice warriors, activists, healers, community organizers, prisoner’s rights activists, civil rights lawyers, investigative journalists and true crime enthusiasts.”
Malik Ismail, Writer, author and host of The Vanguard Podcast
“Professor Brittany Friedman’s powerful narrative explores the criminal injustice system with Carceral Apartheid and the vast differences between the equity of white justice and inequity of Black justice.”