7 February 2023: Abolition and Police

Vitale, Alex. (2017). “The Limits of Police Reform,” and “The Police are Not Here to Protect You.” Chs 1 and 2 in The End of Policing. London and New York: Verso Books, 7–54.

PDF: Vitale, The End of Policing

Alternative source (PDF): https://files.libcom.org/files/Vitale%20-%20The%20End%20of%20Policing%20(Police)%20(2017).pdf

Ritchie, Andrea. (2017). “Policing Gender Lines.” Ch 6 in Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. Boston: Beacon Press.

PDF: Ritchie, "Policing Gender Lines"

Alternative source (EPUB): https://marcell.memoryoftheworld.org/Andrea%20J.%20Ritchie/Invisible%20No%20More_%20Police%20Violence%20Against%20Black%20Women%20and%20Women%20of%20Color%20(3753)/Invisible%20No%20More_%20Police%20Violence%20Against%20-%20Andrea%20J.%20Ritchie.epub

(2022). “‘Police don’t produce safety’: the Black feminist scholars fighting for abolition” (interview with Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie). The Guardian, 29 August.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/29/police-defund-abolition-mariame-kaba-andrea-j-ritchie

14 February 2023: Race, Prisons, and Abolition

Marable, Manning. (1983/2015). “Black Prisons and Punishment in a Racist/Capitalist State.” Ch 4 in How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society (Haymarket Books, 2015; 1st edition 1983).

PDF: Manning, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America

Alternative source: https://archive.org/details/how-capitalism-underdeveloped-black-america-problems-in-race-political-economy-and-society/page/n3/mode/2up

Bobo, Lawrence D. and Victor Thompson. 2010. "Racialized Mass Incarceration: Poverty, Prejudice, and Punishment." in Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century, edited by Hazel R. Markus and Paula Moya. New York: Norton, 322-355.

PDF: Bobo and Thompson, "Racialized Mass Incarceration"

Alternative source (PDF): https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/bobo/files/2010_racialized_mass_incarceration_doing_race.pdf

Stevenson, Bryan. (2019). “Why American Prisons Owe Their Cruelty to Slavery.” In The 1619 Project. New York Times, August 14.

PDF: Stevenson, "Why American Prisons Owe Their Cruelty to Slavery"

Alternative source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18opOiQdfb5htE4GRaHA6G80wlBThEk9-/view

Racial Capitalism and Prison Abolition (graphic zine) PDF: Racial Capitalism and Prison Abolition Alternative source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eqVN29XdAsQJ2fhtDK6FmBCUfZl3frBR/view?pli=1

Kelley, Robin D. G. (1 January 2017). “What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism?”. Boston Review

PDF: Kelley, "What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism?"

Alternative source: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/robin-d-g-kelley-introduction-race-capitalism-justice/

21 February 2023: Gender, Prisons, and Abolition

Ritchie, Andrea. (2017). “Enduring Legacies.” Ch. 1 in Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. Boston: Beacon Press.

PDF: "Enduring Legacies"

Kaba, Mariame. (2021). “From 'Me Too' to 'All of Us': Organizing to End Sexual Violence without Prisons." Interview by Sarah Jaffe with Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan, In These Times, January 2017.” We Do This Til We Free Us. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

PDF: "From 'Me Too' to 'All of Us'"

Kaba, Mariame. (2021). “Black Women Punished for Self-Defense Must Be Freed from Their Cages. We Do This Til We Free Us. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

PDF: "Black Women Punished for Self-Defense"