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One that you might like is, those who know don't say, the nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the

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Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the post-war Black Freedom Movement.

In this bold new political and intellectual history of the nation of Islam,

Garrett Felber centers the nation in the civil rights era,

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struggle that focused as much on policing and prisons as on school desegregation and voting rights.

The book examines efforts to build broad-based grassroots coalitions among liberals,

radicals, and nationalists to oppose the carceral state and struggle for local black

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By provocatively documenting the interplay between law enforcement and Muslim communities,

Felber decisively shows how state repression and Muslim organizing

laid the groundwork for the modern carceral state

and the contemporary prison abolition movement which opposes it.

Exhaustively researched.

The book illuminates new sites and forms of political struggle as

Muslims preyed under surveillance and prison yards and used courtroom political feeder to put the

state on trial. Those who know don't say, the nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement,

and the Carceral State by Garrett Felber.

Out now from the University of North Carolina Press, Justice, Power, and Politics series.

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