| Description |
xvi, 280 pages ; 22 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Prison. 1. The Prisoner Exchange: The Underside of Civil Rights -- 2 Prison: A Sign of US Democracy? -- Part II: Slavery and the US Prison: Genealogical Connections. 3. From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison: Frederick Douglass and the Convict Lease System -- 4. From the Convict Lease System to the Super-Max Prison -- Part III: Disarticulating Crime and Punishment: Emerging Abolitionist Frameworks. 5. Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry -- 6. Changing Attitudes toward Crime and Punishment -- 7 Public Imprisonment and Private Violence: Reflections on the Hidden Punishment of Women -- Part IV: Rethinking Incarceration: Identifying the Prison Industrial Complex. 8. Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex -- 9. Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex: California and Beyond -- Part V: Incarcerated Women: The Netherlands, the United States, and Cuba. 10. Women in Prison: Researching Race in Three National Contexts / with Kum-Kum Bhavani -- 11. Incarcerated Women: Transformative Strategies / with Kum-Kum Bhavani -- 12. Fighting for Her Future: Reflections on Human Rights and Women's Prisons in the Netherlands / with Kum-Kum Bhavani. |
| Summary |
For over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state violence and oppression. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis's writing over the years, showing how her thinking has sharpened and evolved even as she has remained uncompromising in her commitment to collective liberation. In pieces that address the history of abolitionist practice and thought in the United States and globally, the unique contributions of women to abolitionist struggles, and stories and lessons of organizing inside and beyond the prison walls, Davis is always curious, always incisive, and always learning. |
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Prison abolition movements -- United States.
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Alternatives to imprisonment -- United States.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
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African Americans -- Violence against.
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Racial profiling in law enforcement.
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Police corruption.
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Imprisonment.
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Women prisoners.
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Racism.
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Restorative justice.
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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Essays.
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| ISBN |
1642599646 paperback |
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9781642599640 paperback |
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