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Our Class

Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison

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Our Class

De: Chris Hedges
Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
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A powerfully moving book that “could make graspable why today’s prisons are contemporary slave plantations” (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple), giving voice to the poorest among us and laying bare the cruelty of a penal system that too often defines their lives.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has taught courses in drama, literature, philosophy, and history since 2013 in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University at East Jersey State Prison and other New Jersey prisons. In his first class at East Jersey State Prison, where students read and discussed plays by Amiri Baraka and August Wilson, among others, his class set out to write a play of their own. In writing the play, Caged, which would run for a month in 2018 to sold-out audiences at the Passage Theatre in Trenton, New Jersey, and later be published, students gave words to the grief and suffering they and their families have endured, as well as to their hopes and dreams. The class’ artistic and personal discovery, as well as transformation, is chronicled in heartbreaking detail in Our Class.

This “magnificent” (Cornel West, author of Race Matters) book gives a human face and a voice to those our society too often demonizes and abandons. It exposes the terrible crucible and injustice of America’s penal system and the struggle by those trapped within its embrace to live lives of dignity, meaning, and purpose.

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Powerful Truth • Important Book • Remarkable Storytelling • Raw Humanity • Insightful Perspective

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Quite simply, one of the most important books I have ever read. Should be required reading in every high school

Astonishing

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loved it worth the read made me think Chris is a genius hard to say anything bad

really good

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Great Narrator, amazing story. A lot of the book is told from Hedges’ perspective, which was very interesting. IMHO, his best book yet.

Hedges’ Best Work Yet

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I actually got goosebumps at the end. I cannot recommend this book enough. two words

powerful

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Narration, story telling and impact were all top notch. I’ve listened to other books by hedges and have never been so impacted before, due mostly in part to the performance of this narrator.

A must listen

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I have come to know the great skills Hesges has and this is no exception. I think this book was more about his experience and his development as a human being while teaching in prison than the reality of prison in America. The story was good but it lacked structure at times. I found myself lost in the chapter and had to come back to figure out where I left off.

Narrator was excellent and I am hoping to hear from more him.

Riveting Story and Reality

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This is a dark subject but required reading in this country as it depicts the doom of prisoners

Harrowing account of the prison system in the US

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Per usual Chris Hedges' book envelopes the listener. Challenges personal perspectives and gives insight to the state of the prison system in this country. This book is a good joiner to Michelle Alexander's book The New Jim Crow.

Listening Worthy

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This work is deeply profound, insightful, and inspiring. This is a story about resurrection from the dead. I see the dry bones from Ezekiel coming alive.

Thank you Chris Hedges!

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I’ve listened to dozens of Chris’s talks and most of his books. Life changing is all I can say.

Amazing.

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