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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.50 — 32,160 ratings — published 2003
The Last Runaway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.86 — 40,294 ratings — published 2013
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,381 ratings — published 2021
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,720 ratings — published 2017
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.62 — 6,206 ratings — published 2021
Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,703 ratings — published 2022
A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.98 — 344 ratings — published 2021
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,127 ratings — published 2021
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,790 ratings — published 2005
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.47 — 304 ratings — published
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,595 ratings — published 1975
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,700 ratings — published 2010
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.26 — 339,793 ratings — published 2014
Abolitionismus. Ein Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.55 — 29 ratings — published 2022
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,154 ratings — published 2011
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.52 — 6,600 ratings — published 2019
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.36 — 22 ratings — published 2024
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,308 ratings — published 2007
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,403 ratings — published 2007
March (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.82 — 81,802 ratings — published 2005
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Audiobook)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.53 — 727 ratings — published
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,010 ratings — published 2022
An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.14 — 935 ratings — published 2022
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.10 — 106,867 ratings — published 2023
No More Police: A Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.58 — 498 ratings — published
Against Borders: The Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.05 — 338 ratings — published
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.52 — 3,458 ratings — published 1935
Live from Death Row: A Radio Reporter's Impassioned Writings on Injustice, Racism, and Prison Brutalities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,600 ratings — published 1995
Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.34 — 422 ratings — published 2003
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,946 ratings — published 1981
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,460 ratings — published 2018
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,803 ratings — published 2015
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,619 ratings — published 1987
Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,894 ratings — published 2015
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.14 — 139,403 ratings — published 1845
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.29 — 213 ratings — published 1998
Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.49 — 650 ratings — published
Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.48 — 64 ratings — published
Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.69 — 64 ratings — published
Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.32 — 221 ratings — published 2024
How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.94 — 125 ratings — published 2024
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.21 — 992 ratings — published 2017
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (Emergent Strategy #9)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.40 — 193 ratings — published 2023
Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.53 — 60 ratings — published 2022
Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.47 — 317 ratings — published 2014
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,027 ratings — published 1938
From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.41 — 51 ratings — published 2014
Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.40 — 916 ratings — published 2019
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,242 ratings — published 2005
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.70 — 1,044 ratings — published 1852
“It is related of Buonaparte, that he one day rebuked a French lady for busying herself with politics. "Sire," replied she, "in a country where women are put to death, it is very natural that women should wish to know why." And, dear sisters, in a country where women are degraded and brutalized, and where their exposed persons bleed under the lash-- where they are sold in the shambles of "negro brokers"-- robbed of their heard earnings-- torn from their husbands, and forcibly plundered of their virtue and their offspring; surely in such a country, it is very natural that women should wish to know "the reason why"-- especially when these outrages of blood and nameless horror are practiced in violation of the principles of our Constitution. We do not, then, and cannot concede the position, that because this is a political subject women ought to fold their hands in idleness, and close their eyes and ears to the "horrible things" that are practiced in our land. The denial of our duty to act is a bold denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed "the white slaves of the North"-- for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.”
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