Rap and Redemption on Death Row
Imprisoned since age nineteen, Alim Braxton has spent more than a quarter century on North Carolina’s death row. During that time, he converted to Islam and dedicated his life to redemption. Braxton, a rapper since the age of thirteen, uses his rhymes as a form of therapy and to advocate for prison...
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| description | Imprisoned since age nineteen, Alim Braxton has spent more than a quarter century on North Carolina’s death row. During that time, he converted to Islam and dedicated his life to redemption. Braxton, a rapper since the age of thirteen, uses his rhymes as a form of therapy and to advocate for prison reform, particularly by calling attention to the plight of the wrongfully incarcerated. This book, a hip-hop-rich prison memoir, chronicles Braxton’s struggles and triumphs as he attempts to record an album while on death row, something no one has done before. Braxton’s world is complex: full of reflections on guilt, condemnation, incarceration, religious awakening, and the redemptive power of art. Ultimately, Braxton shows us that even amid the brutality of our prison system there are moments of joy, and on death row joy may be the most powerful form of resistance. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1773042026-06-06T06:06:23Z Rap and Redemption on Death Row Braxton, Alim Katz, Mark North Carolina death row Carceral studies Religious conversion in prison Prison memoir Prison reform activism Hip hop artists in prison thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVA Theory of music and musicology thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNT Anthologies: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology::JKVP Penology and punishment thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general Imprisoned since age nineteen, Alim Braxton has spent more than a quarter century on North Carolina’s death row. During that time, he converted to Islam and dedicated his life to redemption. Braxton, a rapper since the age of thirteen, uses his rhymes as a form of therapy and to advocate for prison reform, particularly by calling attention to the plight of the wrongfully incarcerated. This book, a hip-hop-rich prison memoir, chronicles Braxton’s struggles and triumphs as he attempts to record an album while on death row, something no one has done before. Braxton’s world is complex: full of reflections on guilt, condemnation, incarceration, religious awakening, and the redemptive power of art. Ultimately, Braxton shows us that even amid the brutality of our prison system there are moments of joy, and on death row joy may be the most powerful form of resistance. 2026-06-06T06:06:21Z 2026-06-06T06:06:21Z 2026-06-05T14:22:15Z 2024 book book ONIX_20260605T151935_9781469678726_2 https://uncpress.org/book/9781469678726/rap-and-redemption-on-death-row/ https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/113993 9781469678726 9798890887344 9781469678733 9798890887351 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177304 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113993/1/9798890887344.pdf The University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469678733_Braxton 10.5149/9781469678733_Braxton f46e5319-8d09-4c63-b9f2-a13480694ab4 UNC Library and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities 05bc6600-2b16-43cc-962e-96cefb02f858 9781469678726 9798890887344 9781469678733 9798890887351 The University of North Carolina Press 248 Chapel Hill [...] open access |
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