Reviews

Democracia de la abolición: Prisiones, racismo y violencia by Angela Y. Davis

aubreymccabe's review against another edition

5.0

Just read this book. Just read it. I have nothing to add because everything has already been said in this book. I did every single project in english on this book my senior year. By the end I had my teacher and all my classmates in an Angela davis anti-prison industrial complex fury. This may have been one of the best pieces of political theory I have ever picked up and anyone who is looking to get into leftist theory please read this book.

ineszch's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

jcthewriter's review against another edition

informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

_maren_'s review against another edition

fast-paced

4.0

Excellent crash course in the prison abolition movement. I only wish the last chapter on abolitionist alternatives to prisons had been expanded into several chapters as this is what I came in most curious about.

amullens12's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

bamaya's review against another edition

5.0

So so important even 20 years later. 

alifeuls's review against another edition

informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

jenhurst's review against another edition

3.0

I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I think the writing was good and I learned a lot about the American political system. I’m already for prison reform and agree that we should be offering better mental health support and support for drug addicts. But I was really looking for a suggestion of what to do for killers and rapists such as Ted Bundy, Albert fish, Clifford Olsen, etc but there wasn’t any suggestions for them. I think if the book would’ve had a solution for that it would’ve been a really powerful book.

yasidiaz's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Back in February, I read Policing the Black Man, and this book is what I wish that book were. It serves as a good intro to the prison industrial complex and how we should start deconstructing how we think about punishment and rehabilitation.

I want to remark that this is a good introductory book to the prison industrial complex and not end and all book about the topic.

mbandera's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

Definitely a piece to read again and again - dense but wish it was longer.