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Chol Soo Lee Freedom without Justice (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Condition
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- Book Title
- Freedom without Justice
- Publication Name
- Freedom Without Justice : the Prison Memoirs of Chol Soo Lee
- Title
- Freedom without Justice
- Subtitle
- The Prison Memoirs of Chol Soo Lee
- Contributor
- Richard S. Kim (Edited by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780824872885
- ISBN
- 9780824872885
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Topic
- Law & Politics
- Release Year
- 2017
- Release Date
- 30/05/2017
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Item Weight
- 20.1 Oz
- Series
- Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies
- Subject Area
- Law, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
- Subject
- Cultural Heritage, Judicial Power, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Personal Memoirs, General, Social Activists, Penology
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 344 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
ISBN-10
0824872886
ISBN-13
9780824872885
eBay Product ID (ePID)
235021647
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Publication Name
Freedom Without Justice : the Prison Memoirs of Chol Soo Lee
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Subject
Cultural Heritage, Judicial Power, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Personal Memoirs, General, Social Activists, Penology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Series
Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
20.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2016-055631
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
This thought-provoking memoir compels readers to grapple with the reality that falsely convicted individuals are forced into a "prison system that is designed to dehumanize and break men of their will," and where racially motivated gang warfare thrives. The contrast between Lee's treatment in prison and the dedicated support from strangers to seek a retrial and overturn his conviction represent both the worst and best of humanity. . . . This personal telling will appeal to a wide audience, including those interested in issues of race and society, criminal justice, and the treatment of immigrants., Chol Soo Lee has written a remarkable book, one with both popular appeal and scholarly importance. The book is both an eloquent chronicle of the author's conviction and incarceration for a crime he did not commit, a searing description of how prisons produce the non-normativity they purport to punish and prevent, and a recollection of an important chapter in the history of the Asian American movement.
Series Volume Number
10
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
365.6092
Synopsis
Freedom without Justice is the compelling story of Chol Soo Lee's wrongful imprisonment and his years of survival in prison, while political activists fought to win his freedom. His saga took place against a backdrop of great historical change in Asian American communities following the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act. In 1973, less than a decade after he immigrated to the United States from Korea at the age of twelve, Lee is convicted of murder and given a life sentence. Four years later, his case became a nationwide rallying point for an extraordinary pan-Asian American movement during the late 1970s and early 1980s, bringing together people from a broad spectrum of social backgrounds for a common political cause. This diverse grassroots activism organized a six-year "Free Chol Soo Lee!" campaign that led to his release from San Quentin's Death Row in 1983. While the case inspired newspaper headlines, TV specials, and even a Hollywood movie, until now the full story has never been told in Chol Soo Lee's own voice. Freedom without Justice reveals the race and class dimensions of US correctional institutions from the perspective of convicts who fiercely refuse to be victims. As a chronicle of the life of a youth at risk, during a time when Asian American inmates were scarce, and Korean Americans even scarcer, Lee's memoir draws readers into a variety of worlds--war-torn Korea, the streets of San Francisco, the criminal justice system, prison gang politics, and death row., Freedom without Justice is the compelling story of Chol Soo Lee's wrongful imprisonment and his years of survival in prison, while political activists fought to win his freedom. His saga took place against a backdrop of great historical change in Asian American communities following the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act. In 1973, less than a decade after he immigrated to the United States from Korea at the age of twelve, Lee is convicted of murder and given a life sentence. Four years later, his case became a nationwide rallying point for an extraordinary pan-Asian American movement during the late 1970s and early 1980s, bringing together people from a broad spectrum of social backgrounds for a common political cause. This diverse grassroots activism organized a six-year "Free Chol Soo Lee " campaign that led to his release from San Quentin's Death Row in 1983. While the case inspired newspaper headlines, TV specials, and even a Hollywood movie, until now the full story has never been told in Chol Soo Lee's own voice. Freedom without Justice reveals the race and class dimensions of US correctional institutions from the perspective of convicts who fiercely refuse to be victims. As a chronicle of the life of a youth at risk, during a time when Asian American inmates were scarce, and Korean Americans even scarcer, Lee's memoir draws readers into a variety of worlds--war-torn Korea, the streets of San Francisco, the criminal justice system, prison gang politics, and death row.
LC Classification Number
HV9468.L44 2017
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