{"product_id":"9780520390423","title":"Joy and Pain : A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums by Damien M. Sojoyner","description":"A 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.    ? 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 Joy and Pain, Marley's experiences at the intersection of history and the contemporary political moment invite us to imagine more expansive futures.    ?\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291258827125,"sku":"9780520390423","price":23.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780520390423.jpg?v=1762738327","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780520390423","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}