Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
By: Maya Schenwar
4.44
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A crucial indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration” that exposes how many of th…
Want to Read"The same factors that propelled mass incarceration - racism, "law and order" politics, the war on drugs, the destruction of the social safety net - also propelled mass supervision."-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Monitors and house arrest aren't rehabilitative or transformative - they don't support people in making changes that would be helpful to their lives, gaining needed resources, addressing harm or violence, or confronting the social forces that affect them."-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Unlike prisons, psychiatric institutions can be entered voluntarily, and people often turn to them in pursuit of treatment. But when used involuntarily as prison replacements, hospitals mimic persons in eerie ways— and the most oppressed people experience the brunt of the trauma and violence."-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Many types of treatment claim to be about fixing the so-called problems of madness. The real problem is that certain ways of experiencing the world are seen as categorical threats— to normativity, to capitalism, to hierarchy, to the system itself. And our society's answer to a perceived threat is, of course, confinement."-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
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1. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
By: James Forman Jr.
3.00
Format: None pages,
In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent… read more
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2. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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3. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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4. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
By: Steven W. Thrasher
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more
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5. Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
By: Ruha Benjamin
4.47
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world--one small change at a time Long befor… read more
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6. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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7. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
By: Marc Lamont Hill
4.21
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more
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8. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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9. A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
By: Hadas Thier
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the s… read more
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"Is this rotten system the best we can do?"-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
"Marxism is not a simple blueprint, with obvious rights and wrongs. Instead, it is a living, breathing theory, applied to social relations, which themselves are always in motion."-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
"We live in a society in which decades of budget cuts have made a run on overwhelmed hospitals inevitable and which has set countries and states bidding against one another for ventilators on the “fre…"-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
"The first traces of modern humans date back to more than two hundred thousands years ago. But it was only in the last five thousand years (i.e. during less than three percent of human history) that t…"-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
10. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
By: Kathleen Belew
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more
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"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
11. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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12. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
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"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
13. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
14. Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
By: Maya Schenwar
4.44
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A crucial indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration” that exposes how many of th… read more
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"The same factors that propelled mass incarceration - racism, "law and order" politics, the war on drugs, the destruction of the social safety net - also propelled mass supervision."-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Monitors and house arrest aren't rehabilitative or transformative - they don't support people in making changes that would be helpful to their lives, gaining needed resources, addressing harm or viol…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Unlike prisons, psychiatric institutions can be entered voluntarily, and people often turn to them in pursuit of treatment. But when used involuntarily as prison replacements, hospitals mimic persons…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Many types of treatment claim to be about fixing the so-called problems of madness. The real problem is that certain ways of experiencing the world are seen as categorical threats— to normativity, to…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
15. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
By: Kelly Hayes
4.64
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more
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16. Abolition. Feminism. Now.
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.31
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more
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17. Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
By: Maia Szalavitz
4.54
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times b… read more
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18. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
By: Derecka Purnell
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From commu… read more
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"The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
"Campus police and street police are different strands of the same supremacy that plague our resistance."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
19. Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
By: Danielle Sered
4.46
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
The award-winning “radically original” (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Wa… read more
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"When we talk about people who commit violence as monsters (or “superpredators,"-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
"Survivors are often extraordinary at metabolizing just about anything into healing."-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
"If we act on the working definition of forgiveness as relinquishing a desire to see the other suffer, then forgiveness is deeply practical."-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
"I believe when we hurt someone, we incur an obligation. Period. Nothing changes that obligation— not our own history of pain, our unhealed trauma, nothing."-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
20. Fairest: A Memoir
By: Meredith Talusan
3.76
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A singular, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story tr… read more
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21. "Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
By: Victoria Law
4.22
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the p… read more
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