The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration
By: Jack Norton
4.17
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
A VITAL COLLECTION FROM A KEY BATTLEGROUND IN THE ABOLITION THE COUNTY JAILNearly every county and…
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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
2. Live from Death Row
By: Mumia Abu-Jamal , John Edgar Wideman
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Here for the first time are the prison writings of Abu-Jamal--including the censored commentaries f… read more
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3. Selections from the Prison Notebooks
By: Antonio Gramsci , None , Quintin Hoare , Geoffrey Nowell Smith
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An extensive anthology, including his most important writings while in prison on philosophy, histor… read more
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4. 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
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5. Blood in My Eye
By: George L. Jackson
3.32
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Blood In My Eye was completed only days before its author was killed. George Jackson died on August… read more
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6. The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America
By: Naomi Murakawa
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and … read more
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7. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
By: Silvia Federici
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more
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8. 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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9. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
By: Jean Genet , George L. Jackson , None
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brotheris an outspoken condemnation of the r… read more
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10. Instructions for a Heatwave
By: Maggie O'Farrell
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O'Farrell's beguiling novels blend richl… read more
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11. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
12. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
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"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
13. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
14. Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire
By: Jehad Abusalim
4.70
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a p… read more
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15. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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16. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
By: Malcolm Harris
3.90
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more
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17. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
18. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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19. 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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"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)
20. 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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"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
21. 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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22. Carceral Capitalism
By: Jackie Wang
4.61
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, pre… read more
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"In other words, their [police] survival and expansion becomes bound up with their capacity to use the police power and the court system to loot residents."-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism
"The conversion of poverty into a personal moral failure was intimately tied to the construction of black Americans as disposable and subject to mass incarceration."-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism
"As Iyko Day notes, Native dispossession occurs through the expropriation of land, while black dispossession is characterized by enslavement and bodily dispossession."-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism
"The financialization of municipalities, the loss of key tax revenue streams, deindustrialization, and capital flight are the causes of the fiscal crisis—not reckless public spending."-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism
23. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
By: Maggie Nelson
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture… read more
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"Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"This is one of the things I’ve learned about happiness: when you feel it, it’s good to say so. That way, if and when you say later in depression or despair, “I’ve just never been happy,"-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"The reparative turn, as applied to art, is in many ways a continuation of the orthopedic aesthetic, with the difference being that the twentieth-century model imagined the audience as numb, constrict…"-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
24. Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt
By: Orisanmi Burton
4.81
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitioni… read more
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25. Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia
By: Ilya Budraitskis
3.96
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
What happened to the left in Russia? Ilya Budraitskis, one of Russia’s most prominent leftist po… read more
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26. The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
By: Madiba Dennie
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwi… read more
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27. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.68
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision … read more
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28. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
29. The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration
By: Jack Norton
4.17
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
A VITAL COLLECTION FROM A KEY BATTLEGROUND IN THE ABOLITION THE COUNTY JAILNearly every county and… read more
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30. Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition
By: Silky Shah
4.52
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I am going to fulfill my proper function in the soci… read more
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31. Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
4.75
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarcerat… read more
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