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Zalenski, John W. "The Practice of Resistance: Eugene V. Debs, Alexander Berkman, and the Cultural Psychology of the Prisoner of Conscience," University of Iowa, May 1992. Advisor: Albert E. Stone (12, 2, 19)
This dissertation conducts a critical analysis of twentieth-century American prisoners of conscience. The discourse on American national character creates the conceptual context, establishing the connection between culture and ethics at the level of the national society. This conceptual underpinning allows for case studies of Debs and Berkman. These detailed case studies then lead to an examination of the “cultural psychology” of the prisoner of conscience through the autobiographical writings of Mother Jones, Ammon Hennacy, Dorothy Day, Daniel Berrigan, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, George Jackson, and Barbara Deming, among others.
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