Radical Reading List 2024 - hosted by alicedroni

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Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur

320 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir politics race 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

9 hours, 25 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics 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
#sayhername: Black Women's Stories of State Violence and Public Silence by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Forum Policy American African

#sayhername: Black Women's Stories of State Violence and Public Silence

Kimberlé Crenshaw, Forum Policy American African

224 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change by Ben Austen

Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change

Ben Austen

323 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction sociology emotional informative reflective medium-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 Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo

The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil

Philip G. Zimbardo

551 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science sociology challenging dark informative slow-paced
Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice by Tony Messenger

Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice

Tony Messenger

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken by Secret Barrister

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

Secret Barrister

384 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction sociology informative reflective slow-paced
Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment by Zach Norris

Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment

Zach Norris

216 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced