Are Prisons Obsolete?

Are Prisons Obsolete?

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Angela Y. Davis
Angela Y. Davis
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54 books

Hoopla

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Natasha
They Called Us Enemy
The City of Brass
Organizing Solutions for People With Attention Deficit Disorder
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery
Let's Go Exploring: Calvin and Hobbes

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7 books

Leftist Book Reccs

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John Dunham
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Revolutionary Suicide
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle
What is Property?: An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government
Reform or Revolution and Other Writings
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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17 books

Anti Racism

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
I'm Still Here
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

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15 books

Non Fiction

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Lili V
All the Single Ladies
Years That Matter Most
Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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21 books

Black Author

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Lili V
The Death of Vivek Oji
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Another Country
Giovanni's Room
The Body Is Not an Apology The Power of Radical Self-Love
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Binti: The Complete Trilogy

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9 books

Abolition

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We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Becoming Abolitionists
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

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19 books

Justice

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On Repentance and Repair
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Restorative Justice: Critical Issues
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Are Prisons Obsolete?

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39 books

Social Justice

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The Cross and the Lynching Tree
A Theology of Liberation
Introducing Liberation Theology
Jesus and the Disinherited

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26 books

Anti Racism

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The Cross and the Lynching Tree
Jesus and the Disinherited
A Black Theology of Liberation
March
Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology
Dear White Peacemakers: Dismantling Racism With Grit and Grace
I'm Still Here

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341 books

Race Immigration Native

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Becca
Ghost
The Poet X
Children of Blood and Bone
When They Call You a Terrorist
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
March
March

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163 books

Nonfiction

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Becca
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
The Glass Castle
Daily Afflictions
Educated: A Memoir
Blink

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201 books

And Thats Feminism

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Becca
Maybe He Just Likes You
The refrigerator monologues
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age
The Power
Woman World
I'm Afraid of Men

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265 books

Queer

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Becca
Fun home
Foolish Hearts
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
Autoboyography
Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Sadie

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173 books

Health And Disability

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Becca
We Were Liars
Fun home
Turtles All the Way Down
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Eliza and Her Monsters
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Astonishing Color of After

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56 books

Shorties

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Comfort Me with Apples
The Houseguest and Other Stories
Ms Ice Sandwich
Why God is a Woman
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
Manywhere: Stories
The Night in Question

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3 books

Ss Incarceration

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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Blood in the Water
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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3,544 books

Owned Ebook

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Kat
The Carpet People
The Eternal Champion: Book 1 of Erekosë Trilogy
Anathem
Speak Easy
The Sorcerer's House
Bloodchild and Other Stories

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113 books

Read In 2018

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Kat
Polyamory and Jealousy: A More Than Two Essentials Guide
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Winter's Tale
Leviathan Wakes
Dawn

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72 books

Home Library

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Laura
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas
The Piano Tuner
Dreamsnake
Beloved
The Wisdom of Insecurity
Sand County Almanac

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341 books

Racism And Colonialism

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Lessons from Turtle Island
Raising White Kids
Uprooting Racism
White fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism
So You Want to Talk about Race
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Columbus & Beyond: Views from Native Americans

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12 books

Prison Industrial Complex

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Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
The Prison of Democracy: Race, Leavenworth, and the Culture of Law
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Profit and Punishment
Queer

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61 books

Erica Joy Woke List

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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
Bound for Canaan
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
The Half Has Never Been Told

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91 books

Under 150

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A Decolonial Feminism
A Poetry Handbook
A History of My Brief Body
Autobiography of Red
The Wishbone Dress
Year of Blue Water

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126 books

Socio Hist

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A People's History of the United States
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
A Problem from Hell
The Day Michael Collins was Shot
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
The End of Policing

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14 books

abolition / community building

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Becoming Abolitionists
Race after Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
An Abolitionist's Handbook
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II
Beyond Survival
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