Our lyrics will not be on lockdown: An arts collective's response to an incarceration nation

Race Ethnicity and Education

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 295-312

  Green, Keisha ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arts and activism; Critical pedagogy; Literacy education; Prison industrial complex; School to prison pipeline; Youth

Indexed keywords

ART; COLLECTIVE ACTION; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; EMPOWERMENT; GRASSROOTS LEVEL; LITERACY; YOUNG POPULATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956127380     PISSN: 13613324     EISSN: 1470109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2010.500836     Document Type: Article

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