12 Top activism books like Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis

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Abolition. Feminism. Now.

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.31

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading…

If you liked the activism plot in Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

By: Eric A. Stanley , Nat Smith

4.44

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always str… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"The existing criminal justice model poses two main questions in the face of social harm: Who did it? How can we punish them? (And increasingly, how can we make money from it?). Creating safe and heal…"

-Eric A. Stanley, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

"Middle-class gay white men argued that 'gay rights' should remain a legislative issue and that 'legally sanctioned gay marriage should be a primary concern for all of us.' Kunzel charts the ways that…"

-Eric A. Stanley, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

"Abolition is not some disstant future but something we create in every moment when we say no to the traps of empire and yes to the nourishing possibilities dreamed of and practiced by our ancestors a…"

-Eric A. Stanley, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

"I began to notice something strange about the nature of incarceration; in particular, its imposition on the minds and bodies of the imprisoned, promoting a number of inmates to take personal responsi…"

-Eric A. Stanley, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

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2. The Queer Art of Failure

By: J. Jack Halberstam

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Queer Art of Failureis about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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3. Assata: An Autobiography

By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more

Similar categories in Angela Y. Davis's Assata: An Autobiography book and Angela Y. Davis's Abolition. Feminism. Now.

  • race
  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction

4. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more

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5. 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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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
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6. Rehearsals for Living

By: Robyn Maynard

4.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most importan… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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7. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • sociology
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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9. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

By: Dean Spade

4.38

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • sociology
"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

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10. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.46

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more

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  • race
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
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11. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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12. Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

By: Ejeris Dixon

4.54

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Afraid to call 911 but not sure what to do instead? Transformative justice and other community-base… read more

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  • race
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • anti racist
  • sociology
"I know for a fact that we can't heal or hurt alone. We must heal or hurt in relationship with other people. (Mariame Kaba)"

-Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

"I needed so much tenderness, love, and support. I needed a team of adults who could keep me safe while honoring my agency and autonomy. Instead, I got the state: two white social workers in my living…"

-Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

"When we define ourselves, the result is complexity. We are none of us one thing, neither good nor bad. We are complex surviving organisms. We do appalling things to each other, rooted in trauma. We s…"

-Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

"First you hunger for the taste of a stranger, then your enemy, then anyone called a leader, then any small difference will do. Your hands become sharp and your words become sharp and the only move av…"

-Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

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13. 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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  • race
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • anti racist
"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

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14. 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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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
"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

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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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  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • sociology
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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

Similar categories in Angela Y. Davis's Abolition. Feminism. Now. book and Angela Y. Davis's Abolition. Feminism. Now.

  • race
  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • anti racist
  • sociology
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17. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.46

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more

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  • activism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

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18. Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

By: Jennifer Mullan

4.48

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens. … read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
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19. 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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  • race
  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • anti racist
  • sociology
"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

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20. No More Police: A Case for Abolition

By: Mariame Kaba

4.59

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

An instant national best seller A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizer… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • anti racist
  • sociology
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21. We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.31

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. … read more

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  • race
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • sociology
"Movements tend to become the practice ground for what we are healing towards, co-creating. Movements are responsible for embodying what we are inviting our people into. We need the people within our …"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)

10 must-read history books like Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis

Transform Your Habits

Assata: An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

Transform Your Habits

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Rehearsals for Living

Robyn Maynard

4.48

Transform Your Habits

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Rashid Khalidi

4.50

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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

4.07

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Cynthia Carr

4.27

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3.70

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