Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

49 reviews

gatorskulls's review against another edition

challenging informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Racism

novella42's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

5.0

A powerful read, and a perspective shift I had never thought to question before. I'm glad I had the author-read audiobook, spending five hours listening to the incomparable Angela Davis was well worth the time.

"What would it mean to imagine a system in which punishment is not allowed to become the source of corporate profit? How can we imagine a society in which race and class are not primary determinants of punishment? Or one in which punishment itself is no longer the central concern in the making of justice? 

"An abolitionist approach that seeks to answer questions such as these would require us to imagine a constellation of alternative strategies and institutions, with the ultimate aim of removing the prison from the social and ideological landscapes of our society."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Classism, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, Violence, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Slavery, Death, Deportation, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, and Murder

jessthanthree's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Torture, and Classism

Minor: Murder, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deportation

kirstenf's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Confinement, Racism, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, and Sexism

Moderate: Slavery and Sexual violence

bootsmom3's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Sexual violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual assault, Violence, Medical trauma, Sexism, Medical content, and Rape

Minor: Alcohol and Drug use

oworthyfool's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Sexism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Mental illness, Murder, and Medical content

justinareads's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Misogyny, Police brutality, Sexual violence, and Torture

thoughtsontomes's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

This is a good starting point for studying the links between prisons, capitalism, and racism. It does provide some starting points for alternatives to prisons at the end, but that topic requires further reading. This is much more about the point of the title - that prisons should be obsolete and what is happening behind closed doors. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Racism, Torture, and Slavery

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

arsenic_'s review against another edition

challenging informative reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Murder