No More Prisons A Hitchhiker's Guide to Community Activism

by Wimsatt, William Upski

• ISBN13: 9781887128421
• ISBN10: 1887128425
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-12
• Publisher: Soft Skull Press

Summary

Winner of the 2000 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Best Book, Politics.

Table of Contents

Introduction
All my Hats at Once	1	(3)
What I Want	4	(3)
Why Are All Your Friends in Prison?	7	(3)
Why We Love Prisons	10	(4)
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Community Organizing
Aren't You Tired of Having the Same Hairdo as Every Other Ghetto Bitch?	14	(1)
A Book for People Who Don't Usually Read	15	(3)
Not Just a Book---It's a Plan	18	(1)
Bomb the Ghettos	19	(1)
The Bet With America	20	(1)
Hitchhiking as Sport	21	(2)
The Value of a Ghetto Education	23	(1)
The Most Feared Neighborhoods in America	24	(2)
What Bet? Which America?	26	(3)
Selling Bomb the Suburbs in the Suburbs	29	(2)
Publishing Industry Motherfuckers	31	(2)
How Bomb the Suburbs Blew Up in My Face	33	(1)
My Impossible Dream	34	(3)
Triple Consciousness	37	(3)
The Cool Rich Kids Movement
How Break-dancing Got Me Into Philanthropy	40	(2)
In Defense of Rich Kids	42	(2)
The Cool Rich People's Conference	44	(3)
The Most Effective Thing You Ever Do	47	(4)
Money Talks. So Can She: An Interview with Tracy Hewat	51	(7)
Homeschooling and Self-Education
Schoolaholics Anonymous: How to Overcome Your Addiction to School	58	(1)
The University of Planet Earth	59	(3)
The Unschooling Movement	62	(4)
That's Fine for Middle-Class White Kids Like You, But My Children Need a High School Diploma	66	(3)
The Black Homeschooling Movement	69	(7)
A Gourmet Guide to Self-Education	76	(3)
The Self-Education Foundation	79	(3)
Urban Life vs. Suburban Sprawl
Why I Love My Neighborhood	82	(1)
The Basketball Kidnappings	83	(4)
Suburban Planning	87	(1)
Cities and Suburbs Unite! An Interview with David Rusk	88	(3)
A City-Suburb Coalition? An Interview with Myron Orfield	91	(3)
A Wicked Civilization: An Interview with James Howard Kunstler	94	(4)
Prisons and Gated Communities: How Our Fear of Crime Is Killing Us	98	(6)
Hip-Hop Leadership
Who's Really Saving Our Cities? (It's Not Who You Think)	104	(1)
Hip-Hop as Double-Edged Sword	105	(2)
Innovative Solutions to Urban Problems	107	(1)
Non-Profit Meets Hip-Hop	108	(2)
We Are the People We're Saving	110	(2)
The Out-of-Pocket Sector	112	(1)
Dissed by the Do-Gooders	113	(1)
How to Work With the Hip-Hop Generation	114	(3)
Master of Combinations: An Interview with Rha Goddess	117	(7)
The Millionaire Who Couldn't Read: An Interview with John Payne	124	(8)
The Greatest Art Form of the 21st Century
Why Philanthropy wasn't much of an Art Form in the 20th Century	132	(1)
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Community Organizing	133	(1)
Why Isn't There a List of Youth Activists?	134	(2)
Certain Things You Can't Prove	136	(1)
Why Philanthropy will Be the Greatest Art Form of the 21st Century	137	(2)
The Art of Philanthropy	139	(5)
Conclusions
No More Prisons, More of Everything Else	144	(7)
The Organizations We Need	151	(2)
Why You Need to Start Your Own Organization	153	(1)
The Joy of Organizing	154	(3)
Author's Acknowledgements: Why I'm Not in Prison
All the people who helped me and kept me sane	157	(4)
Index	161