Discourse and destruction : the city of Philadelphia versus MOVE /

Discourse and destruction : the city of Philadelphia versus MOVE /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Wagner-Pacifici, Robin Erica
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Description:	xii, 174 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	MOVE (Organization) MOVE (Organization) Violence -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. Black nationalism -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. African Americans. Black nationalism. Race relations. Violence. Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations. Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1590993

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ISBN:	0226869768 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226869776 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-167) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. A Framework for Articulating Horror
2. What Is MOVE?
3. The Language of Domesticity
4. Bureaucratic Discourse: The Policy, the Plan, the Operation
5. The Law and Its Apparatus: Speaking Warrants and Weapons
6. Decarcerating Discourse
Notes
Bibliography
Index