2024 Abolitionist Reading Challenge - hosted by cas_reads_anything

The history of mass incarceration
Discord read-along pick: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
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City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 by Kelly Lytle Hernández

City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965

Kelly Lytle Hernández

301 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault

352 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

128 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history politics 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
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