Gifts from the Dark

Learning from the Incarceration Experience

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvJoni Schwartz,John R. Chaney

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While in no way supporting the systemic injustices and disparities of mass incarceration, Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Experience argues that we have much to learn from those who have been and are in prison. Schwartz and Chaney profile the contributions of literary giants, social activists, entrepreneurs, and other talented individuals who, despite the disorienting dilemma of incarceration, are models of adult transformative learning that positively impact the world. The authors interweave narratives with both qualitative and quantitative research references to analyze the role of solitude, writing, non-verbal communication; race and gender; physical exercise; education; technology; family and parenting; and the need to “give back” that precipitate transformative learning. The prison cell becomes a counterspace of metamorphosis. In focusing upon how men and women have chosen the worst moments of their lives as a baseline not to define, but to refine themselves, Gifts from the Dark promises to forever alter the limited mindset of incarceration as a solely one-dimensional, deficit event.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-04-21
Mått163 x 228 x 23 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice
Antal sidor210
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498591706

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Part I: Adult Transformative Learning and the Prison ExperienceChapter 1: Prison Writing: A Literary TraditionChapter 2: Incarceration: The Disorienting Dilemma toward TransformationChapter 3: Transformation: A Brave ActChapter 4: Understanding the Role of Race and GenderPart II: Learning that Transforms the SelfChapter 5: Sitting with Yourself: Cells of Silence and SolitudeChapter 6: The Organic IntellectualChapter 7: Higher & Continuing Education: Attracting the Best StudentsChapter 8: Exercising Body and Mind: Habits and FlowChapter 9: Emotional Intelligence and the Prison ExperiencePart III: Learning in Relation to OthersChapter 10: The Black Family and the Incarceration ExperienceChapter 11: The Prison Experience and TechnologyChapter 12: Non-verbal CommunicationPart IV: Learning that Transforms the WorldChapter 13: Giving BackChapter 14: Criminal Justice Reform: Everyone’s Responsibility

Compelling, eye opening, and captivating. Schwartz and Chaney provide a fresh look on an age-old phenomenon: Incarceration. Their unique approach of inviting diverse voices through primary sources and testimonies of formerly incarcerated persons who spanned geographic space and time, racial and gender identity location, as well as type of conviction offers the reader a different perspective on the prison experience. This perspective highlights the transformative learning potentiality born from the dark recesses of imprisonment. It reminds us that saving the soul of America hinges on rescuing our humanity from the inhumanity of a justice system built on racist ideology and practices.