Angela Davis Inspired Reading Challenge - hosted by helenabythebook

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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

5 hours, 47 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, Beth Richie, Angela Y. Davis

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, Beth Richie, Angela Y. Davis

250 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction feminism race sociology informative reflective medium-paced
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

3 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Feminist War on Crime by Aya Gruber

The Feminist War on Crime

Aya Gruber

288 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism dark informative medium-paced
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

The End of Policing

Alex S. Vitale

272 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative medium-paced
We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility by Marc Lamont Hill

We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility

Marc Lamont Hill

2 hours, 53 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World by Patrisse Cullors

An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World

Patrisse Cullors

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

Derecka Purnell

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States by Maya Schenwar

Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States

Maya Schenwar

224 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction politics race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced