From Slave Ship to SupermaxIn his cogent and groundbreaking book, From Slave Ship to Supermax, Patrick Elliot Alexander argues that the disciplinary logic and violence of slavery haunt depictions of the contemporary U. S. prison in late twentieth century Black fiction. Alexander links representations of prison life in James Baldwins novel If Beale Street Could Talk to his engagements with imprisoned intellectuals like George Jackson, who exposed historical continuities between