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Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

Da’Shaun Harrison

109 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire by Angela Y. Davis

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire

Angela Y. Davis

136 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

512 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics race 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
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
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba

We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

Abolitionist Papers

Mariame Kaba

240 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics race challenging informative reflective medium-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
Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Gina Dent, Beth E. Richie, Angela Y. Davis, Erica R. Meiners

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

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

179 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction feminism race sociology informative reflective medium-paced
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