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Tip of the Spear

Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt
  • Orisanmi Burton
2023
University of California Press

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Featured Excerpts

  • Attica after state police stormed the prison, 1971.
    Book Review

    How Should We Remember Attica?

    Orisanmi Burton’s "Tip of the Spear" uncovers the obscured and radical demands of the inmates who staged the 1971 prison uprising—a world without prisons.
    by Charlotte Rosen via The Nation on May 26, 2025
  • Exterior of Attica Correctional Facility.
    Book Review

    The “Long Attica Revolt”

    The resistance inside prisons is an integral part of the struggle against white supremacy and for Black liberation beyond the walls.
    by Robert J. Boyle via Against the Current on June 30, 2024
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