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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).

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.


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


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

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