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Underground Fugitives Foresaw US Decline and Repression
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
20 Aug 2018
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The underground radicals of the 1960s and 70s were prescient in their political analysis, according to Stephen Dillon, author of Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State. “They knew that deindustrialization was coming; they knew that dismantling of the welfare state was coming; they knew that an unprecedented regime of racialized capture was coming in the form of mass incarceration.”

Mass Black Incarceration

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