Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison - Chris Hedges

Category: Adults, Bestsellers, Education, Political
Language: English
Keywords: Crime Discipline Government Politics Prison Progressive Punishing Racism Social Sciences

Written by Chris Hedges
Read by Prentice Onayemi
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Our Class
Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison
By: Chris Hedges
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
Release date: 10-19-21
Language: English

Publisher’s Summary

A haunting and powerfully moving book that gives voice to the poorest among us and lays bare the cruelty of a penal system that too often defines their lives.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has taught courses in drama, literature, philosophy, and history since 2013 in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University at East Jersey State Prison and other New Jersey prisons. In his first class at East Jersey State Prison, where students read and discussed plays by Amiri Baraka and August Wilson, among others, his class set out to write a play of their own. In writing the play Caged, which would run for a month in 2018 to sold-out audiences at The Passage Theatre in Trenton, New Jersey, and later be published, students gave words to the grief and suffering they and their families have endured, as well as to their hopes and dreams. The class’s artistic and personal discovery, as well as transformation, is chronicled in heartbreaking detail in Our Class. This book gives a human face and a voice to those our society too often demonizes and abandons. It exposes the terrible crucible and injustice of America’s penal system and the struggle by those trapped within its embrace to live lives of dignity, meaning, and purpose.
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