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A major collection of essays and speeches from pioneering freedom fighter Angela Y. Davis
For over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state violence and oppression. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis's writing over the years, showing how her thinking has sharpened and evolved even as she has remained uncompromising in her commitment to collective liberation. In pieces that address the history of abolitionist practice and thought in the United States and globally, the unique contributions of women to abolitionist struggles, and stories and lessons of organizing inside and beyond the prison walls, Davis is always curious, always incisive, and always learning.
Rich and rewarding, Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises will appeal to fans of Davis, to students and scholars reflecting on her life and work, and to readers new to feminism, abolition, and struggles for liberation.
Contents
Abolition, Volume 1: Politics, Practices, Promises
Introduction by Angela Y. Davis
Capitalism, Democracy, and the Prison
The Prisoner Exchange
Prison: A Sign of U.S. Democracy?
Inside/Outside: Women at the Borders of Globalization
Slavery and the U.S. Prison: Genealogical Connections
From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison: Frederick Douglass and the
Convict Lease System
From the Convict Lease System to the Supermax Prison
Disarticulating Crime and Punishment: Emerging Abolitionist Frameworks
Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry
Changing Attitudes Toward Crime and Punishment
Public Imprisonment and Private Violence: Reflections on the Hidden Punishment
of Women
Rethinking Incarceration: Identifying the Prison Industrial Complex
Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex
Race, Gender and the Prison Industrial Complex: California and Beyond
Incarcerated Women: The Netherlands, the United States, and Cuba
Women in Prison: Researching Race in Three National Contexts
Incarcarated Women: Transformative Strategies
Fighting for her Future: Reflections on Human Rights and Women's Prisons
In the Netherlands
Internationalism and Abolition
Statement for Dream Defenders Program on Palestine
Farewell to Rasmeah
Prisons and Palestine
Without Racism, Democracy Is Better
