Abolition


Are Prisons Obsolete?
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
The End of Policing
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
No More Police: A Case for Abolition
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
The Invention of Wings
The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootMedical Apartheid by Harriet A. WashingtonWhen Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
Breaking Brown Book Reads
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Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellAshes in the Wind by Kathleen E. WoodiwissAnd One Wore Gray by Heather    GrahamOne Wore Blue by Heather    GrahamThorns of Eden by Diana Ballew
Civil War Era Romance
103 books — 122 voters

William Lloyd Garrison
Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS ...more
William Lloyd Garrison, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Barbara Deming
...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anything I have learned by being in jail, it is that prisons are wrong, simply and unqualifiedly wrong.
Barbara Deming, Prisons That Could Not Hold

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