Reviews tagging 'Classism'

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

20 reviews

lucy12345's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, Confinement, Sexual violence, Violence, and Misogyny

Moderate: Hate crime, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, Classism, and Drug use

Minor: Colonisation

wetdirtreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Confinement, Murder, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Racism, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Classism, Sexual violence, and Slavery

Minor: Colonisation, War, Homophobia, and Drug use

michaelion's review against another edition

hopeful informative fast-paced

4.25

I'd like to propose the opposite of Betteridge's law of headlines: Angela Y. Davis' law of book titles, which states that if a book asks the reader a question than answer as probably yes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Domestic abuse, Trafficking, Xenophobia, and Murder

Minor: Deportation, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Rape

shholmes's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Confinement, Police brutality, Racism, and Violence

tacita's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Addiction, Gun violence, Violence, Alcoholism, Classism, Confinement, and Forced institutionalization

picoledenaranja's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, Classism, Violence, and Sexual violence

Minor: Rape and Xenophobia

biljnavjestica's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Sexism, Classism, and Forced institutionalization

flamingtashhh's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

I mean, it’s a classic for a reason. Often cited and never replicated, Davis’ work just had me unraveling question after question. I feel like a lot of the material that she covered is material I’m familiar with at this point, but because her work has been cited so often. 

Some things I’d like to explore more following this book:
1. The colonization of the land by prisons. What effect on the environment and our connection to it does the logic and PHYSICAL fact of prisons have? 
2. Racial capitalism and borders. How does the global migration of labor impact prisons? What similarities does this share with the Atlantic Slave Trade? 
3. Gender-making and prisons. What does the logic of prison reform do to our notions of gender? How is this related to colonial notions of gender and citizenship? 
4. Punishment and violence, specifically an expansion of the idea that domestic and sexual violence is the basis of punishment in women’s prisons. 

There’s more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Misogyny, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Murder, Slavery, Violence, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Homophobia, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Colonisation, Classism, Torture, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Sexism, and Forced institutionalization

sienafarr's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Everyone should read this book even if you don’t agree with abolition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Racism, Sexism, Classism, and Murder

nickshutter's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, Confinement, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Slavery

Moderate: Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Murder, Torture, and Xenophobia

Minor: Alcoholism, Islamophobia, Drug abuse, Grief, and War