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Shankar, Ravi

 
9780299335304: Correctional
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ISBN 10: 0299335305 ISBN 13: 9780299335304
Editorial: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022

Sinopsis

The first time Ravi Shankar was arrested, he spoke out against racist policing on National Public Radio and successfully sued the city of New York. The second time, he was incarcerated when his promotion to full professor was finalized. During his ninety-day pretrial confinement at the Hartford Correctional Center-a level 4, high-security urban jail in Connecticut-he met men who shared harrowing and heart-felt stories. The experience taught him about the persistence of structural racism, the limitations of mass media, and the pervasive traumas of twenty-first-century daily life.
 
Shankar's bold and complex self-portrait-and portrait of America-challenges us to rethink our complicity in the criminal justice system and mental health policies that perpetuate inequity and harm. Correctional dives into the inner workings of his mind and heart, framing his unexpected encounters with law and order through the lenses of race, class, privilege, and his bicultural upbringing as the first and only son of South Indian immigrants. Vignettes from his early life set the scene for his spectacular fall and subsequent struggle to come to terms with his own demons. Many of them, it turns out, are also our own.

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Acerca del autor

Ravi Shankar is an award-winning author and editor of more than fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry. He is the founder of Drunken Boat, one of the world’s oldest electronic journals of the arts, and has been featured in the New York Times and on BBC, NPR, and PBS NewsHour. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island with his partner and their dogs, Annie and Rishi.

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Editorial
University of Wisconsin Press
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0299335305
ISBN 13 
9780299335304
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
244
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