Table of contents:
Introduction
Penitentiaries, Slavery and Colonial Expansion
1930s-1960s
1970s
The 1970s in Quebec
1980s and 1990s
Current Context
Race and Canadian Prisons
Anarchists and Aboltionists
Conclusion
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Interview With Some Friends From So-Called Canada
Further Reading
About relationships between humans and the land and other living beings, how we view these, and how they're determined by stories and language we use. It compares indigenous and western ways of understanding the world.
From the back cover: "Is it a box of matches burning the museum that displays the art object that is the box of matches? Or is / it the box of matches in the hands of a child who knows he is hated in his police-filled school in his police-filled city? Is it the incendiary accident of that child? Is it / how can language set fire to that? Is it how to set fire to fire?"