Gulag

[Alina Israeli]

Not just Amnesty International, the word Gulag has entered (sadly)  
English language (another Russian contribution after pogrom). See a  
few book titles:

American gulag : inside U.S. immigration prisons / Mark Dow. 2004
Golden gulag : prisons, surplus, crisis, and opposition in  
globalizing California / Ruth Wilson Gilmore. 2007
America's invisible Gulag : a biography of German American internment  
& exclusion in World War II : memory and history / Stephen Fox. 2000
Castro's gulag : the politics of terror / by Frank Calzón. 1979



On Feb 3, 2008, at 8:40 PM, Deborah Hoffman wrote:

> Not for anything will I wade into this debate, though I am enjoying  
> the exchange. In bringing the example of Gulag I was more thinking  
> of the term as a cultural referent that one (ideally) should be  
> able to identify in the U.S., especially since Amnesty  
> International referred only several years ago to U.S. detention  
> centers as a gulag.


Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington DC. 20016
(202) 885-2387 	
fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu




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