ABOUT
With support from a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), a team of faculty and graduate students at SBU worked closely with the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation (UBFSF) to edit over 100 manuscripts by incarcerated authors, a sampling of which is included in this collection. These writings, and many more to come, will be preserved in this ever-expanding, open-access “Living Archive” at Stony Brook University, where the collection is available for use by scholars, teachers, activists, and policymakers. The ACLS grant also supported Herstory in adapting its unique, empathy-based memoir writing curriculum to an online format (Herstory Beyond Bars) for use in carceral settings behind and beyond bars. Our interactive website Writing Beyond the Prison places writings by incarcerated and system-impacted individuals in cultural, historical, and pedagogical contexts.
TERMS OF USE
All materials in this collection are copyrighted in the United States. Release forms to make this collection accessible as an educational resource have been signed by the authors. The author retains rights to their work; thus, each item in the collection has been given the rights statement IN COPYRIGHT. Visit RightsStatements.org for further information on correct usage of items in this collection.
All contributors signed a release form assigning Stony Brook University Libraries the rights to publication, usage, and disposition of the submission(s). It grants Stony Brook University Libraries the right to organize the materials, to create metadata and full-text search interfaces required for the preservation and discovery of the material, and to make the materials accessible to researchers.
Please contact the administrator of this repository at openaccess@stonybrook.edu for any requests regarding this collection.
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Social Justice Autobiography
Taurus DeVault
Social Justice Autobiography on Self-improvement; self-education; social justice
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Department of Corruption
Rashad El
Poem on Prison Life, Mental Health; Rehabilitation; Policing; Sentencing; Popular culture (film)
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First Week Out...
Rashad El
Poem on Re-entry, Rehabilitation; Drugs; Mental Health; Popular culture (Music); Religion/Morality
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Invisible Me
Rashad El
Poem on Race, Protest, Historical Memory (Black Freedom Struggle); Immigration; popular culture (books, film); Religion/Morality
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Social Justice Autobiography
Dewitt Faulkner
Social Justice autobiography on: LA Riots; Rodney King; Gangs; racial violence; police brutality; criminal justice system; Wisconsin; Truth-in-Sentencing; Black history; Sharecropping.
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Guardian
Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings
Poem on Racism; Religion; Black history; Black liberation; Media; Reform
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Soul of One King
Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings
Poem on Religion; Black history; Black liberation; Reform
