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"In writing this book, I drew from my own experiences and the experiences of my friends and family, from the work and thinking of the organizers, scholars, and trailblazers who taught and inspired me to become an abolitionist. This book's very nature, its inherent structure and guiding principles lean heavily on books by others. Because of this, it's very hard to choose just a handful of books to list here, but you can also refer to the "Further Reading" section in the Reading Group Guide for my book, which will be available online soon!" – Derecka Purnell
Becoming Abolitionists
Derecka Purnell
Hardback
$28.00
$26.04
"An informed, provocative, astute consideration of salvific alternatives to contemporary policing and imprisonment." — Starred Review, Kirkus
From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation (Expanded Second Edition)
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor,
Angela Y Davis
Paperback
$19.95
$18.55
"This is my favorite book on the Black Lives Matter movement. Keeanga skillfully and artfully details how the movement did not simply emerge from a singular police killing, but also from over a decade of activism for progressive causes that includes Occupy Wall Street and the campaign to free Troy Davis from death row."
Soledad Brother
George Jackson,
Jonathan Jackson Jr,
Jean Genet
Paperback
$18.95
$17.62
"These letters by slain political prisoner George Jackson uses his personal life and the conditions of racial exploitation to provide searing critiques of the prison system, fascism, and capitalism. For Jackson, once we “concede that criminals and crime arise from material, economic, sociopolitical causes, we can then bum all of the criminology and penology libraries and direct our attention where it will do some good.”
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
Professor Manning Marable,
Professor Leith Mullings
Paperback
$24.95
$23.20
"Marable’s classic text (which is a play on Walter Rodney’s classic text, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, which should also be required reading) is a timeless account of race and class exploitation in the U.S. In the end, he delivers on what very few academics offer: robust thoughts on building a mass movement to undermine violence and fight for progressive change."