America Is the Prison: Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s

Index

Abbott, Jack Henry, 16; and Adan, Richard, confrontation with, 159, 160–61; and arts, rehabilitative power of, 170–71; and communism, 156, 166; death of, 163; The Death of Tragedy, 162; education of, 156–57; and incarcerated people, marginalization of, 168–69; In the Belly of the Beast, 156, 157–58, 161, 162–63, 165–66; Kosinski , Jerzy, correspondence with, 157, 165; and Mailer, Norman (see Mailer, Norman); Marion Prisoners’ Rights Project, involvement with, 169; My Return, 157, 162–63; parole of, 158–59; penal system, critique of, 156, 166, 167, 182; and prison reform, 171; and “radical chic,” 163–64, 166, 167, 168; and Saturday Night Live parody, 170; “stateraised ” convict, 155–56, 157, 162; trial and reincarceration of, 160–62; violent behavior of, as political protest, 156, 167–68, 182; wrongful death suit against, 162–63 Adan, Ricci, 162, 163 Adan, Richard, 159, 160–61 Aguila, Pancho, 204 (n. 43) Algren, Nelson, 163 Althusser, Louis, 29, 30–31, 34 American Correctional Association, 80 Anderson, Stephen Wayne, 175 Andrews, Benny, 84, 85, 86–87, 100, 199 (n. 44) Ardrey, Robert, 57 Arizona State Prison Writer’s Workshop, 77 Art in Prison program, 86 Artists and Writers Protest Against the War in Vietnam, 86 Artists in Social Institutions Program, 77 Arts-in-Corrections Program, 80–81, 183 Arts in Prison Inc., 183 Art without Walls/Free Space, 87–88, 183 Attica Liberation Faction, 67, 69, 70, 71 Attica State Correctional Facility: protest and rebellion at, 52, 67, 69–72, 75, 104, 175, 197 (n. 2) Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 15, 167 Baldwin, James, 24, 66, 180 Banfield, Edward C., 36 Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones), 76, 105–6, 108, 135, 175, 203 (n. 36) Bard Prison Initiative, 183 Barker, Ma, 40 Baudelaire, Charles, 165 Baum, Dan, 48 Baxter, Carolyn, 124–25, 127, 182 Beck, Robert. See Iceberg Slim Beckett, Katherine, 24–25 Beckett, Samuel, 130, 131, 135 Bergansky, Chuck, 139 Bergman, John, 208 (n. 38) Bernstein, Felicia, 151–52 Bernstein, Leonard, 151–52, 153, 154, 163 Biden Crime Bill. See Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act Bindhammer, Frank, 90 Bingham, Stephen, 66, 195 (n. 44) Birk, Sandow, 180 Black African Nations toward Unity, 73 Black Arts movement, 16, 17; and art, political content of, 101, 103; and black index 216 Index men, patriarchal role of, 121, 123–24; and Black Power movement, 99–100, 107, 108, 123–24; and Black Queen, 119–21; and Chicano/a writers, works by, 121–24, 126–27; and cultural nationalism , 116–17; and homosexuality, 108, 109; and incarcerated black men, writings by, 105–21, 128; and incarcerated black women, writings by, 124– 26, 128; and Norfolk Program, 102–3; and pimp, image of, 109–10, 111, 113, 116, 119; and prison, political transformation in, 110–11, 128; and prisoners, revolutionary potential of, 101, 103–4, 107, 127; and prison theater, 144; and prison writers, mentoring of, 100, 128; and racial liberation, 99, 103, 107; and violence, sexualized, 108–9, 120; and women, exploitation/protection of, 116–17, 118, 119, 125–26, 127, 205 (n. 63) Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, 16, 84, 85–86, 87, 89, 199 (nn. 35, 44) Black Guerrilla Family, 57, 194 (n. 15) Black Panther Party (BPP), 7, 31; and African nationalism, 115; chapters of, in prisons, 66, 195 (n. 43); and criminal justice system, critique of, 24; and incarcerated activists, 65–66; and Jackson, George, 64; and prison inmates , radicalization of, 67; “Ten Point Program” of, 64; and white liberals, support of, 151–52, 153–54, 155, 167 Black Power movement. See Black Arts movement; Prisons/penitentiaries Black Repertory Group, 182 Blake, William, 165 Blank, Jessica, 180–81 Blyden, Herbert X., 67–68 Boal, Augusto, 129–30, 143–44, 149 Bond, Julian, 54 Branell College, 177 Brecht, Berthold, 52–53, 135 Brewster, Kingman, 152 Brewster, Lawrence, 81 Brick, Howard, 190 (n. 51) Brooks, Gwendolyn, 100, 118 Bruchac, Joseph, 99 Buckley, William F., Jr., 163 Buffalo Black Drama Workshop, 75 Bunker, Edward, 72, 104 Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD), 44–45, 46, 49 Burger, Warren E., 169 Bush, George H. W., 33, 178, 188 (n. 6) Butler, Peter, 67 Button, James W., 28, 46 Cabral, Amilcar, 73, 115 Califano, Joseph, 45 California Department of Corrections, 80 Camillo, Marvin Felix, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136 Campbell, W. Reason, 83 Camus, Albert, 157 Carlson, Norman, 95–96, 98 Carr, James, 56 Carter, Rubin “Hurricane,” 89 Cell Block Theatre, 129, 131, 143, 144–46, 209 (n. 44) Center for the Advanced Study in...