{"product_id":"9780520390423","title":"Joy and Pain","description":"\u003cb\u003eA poignant account of how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people--and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future.\u003c\/b\u003e  At the Southern California Library--a community organization and an archive of radical and progressive movements--the author meets a young man, Marley. In telling Marley's story, Damien M. Sojoyner depicts the overwhelming nature of Black precarity in the twenty-first century through the lenses of housing, education, health care, social services, and juvenile detention. But Black life is not defined by precarity; it embraces social visions of radical freedom that allow the pursuit of a life of joy beyond systems of oppression.  Structured as a \"record collection\" of five \"albums,\" this innovative book relates Marley's personal encounters with everyday aspects of the carceral state through an ethnographic A side and offers deeper context through an anthropological and archival B side. In \u003ci\u003eJoy and Pain\u003c\/i\u003e, Marley's experiences at the intersection of history and the contemporary political moment invite us to imagine more expansive futures. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59619311386956,"sku":"9780520390423","price":19.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/4163\/2076\/files\/9780520390423-259f271a06898f4f_front.webp?v=1793266834","url":"https:\/\/foxandfable.com\/de\/products\/9780520390423","provider":"Fox \u0026 Fable","version":"1.0","type":"link"}