Kemp, and the ideological prejudices that still permeate and influence our legal, political, and social systems today. Ferguson, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, McCleskey v. First and foremost, they illuminate the ways we all share a common history of racism by implicitly revealing the connections between slavery, Dred Scott, Plessey v. His internal account of prison life, therefore, depicts the inmates of Pennsylvania’s Huntingdon County prison not as moral aliens but as human beings and what early New England execution sermons describe as “common sinners.” More specifically, Abu-Jamal’s arguments linking the “free” with the condemned work on two basic levels. This analysis interrogates Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Live From Death Row to argue that unlike traditional personal narratives or memoirs, the diverse series of vignettes in Abu-Jamal’s most famous publication provoke readers to grapple not solely with his lived experiences on death row or the lived experiences of his fellow inmates they also call for readers to confront the damming moral, social, and economic impact of mass incarceration on society at large. Lives From Death Row: Common Sinners and Current Pasts Articles Lives From Death Row: Common Sinners and Current Pasts Authors: Abstract
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