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With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly,the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable.
In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole. Click here to see Angela Y. Davis's just-released Open Media book, ABOLITION DEMOCRACY
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Newsday
The Afro that blossomed around her face in the '70s has morphed into a contemporary natural, its sandy-colored hair flecked with gray. But there is no mistaking the consistency of her message, a
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Mumia Abu-Jamal
There was a time in America when to call a person an 'abolitionist' was the ultimate epithet. It evoked scorn in the North and outrage in the South. Yet they were the harbingers of things to
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Mike Davis, author of Dead Cities, and City of Quartz.
In this extraordinary book, Angela Davis challenges us to confront the human rights catastrophe in our jails and prisons. As she so convincingly argues, the contemporary U.S. practice of
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Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman from Georgia
In this brilliant, thoroughly researched book, Angela Davis swings a wrecking ball into the racist and sexist nderpinnings of the American prison system. Her arguments are well rought
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Suza Francina, former Mayor, Ojai, California
It is almost too much for the human mind to fully comprehend that there are more than 2 million people—a group larger than the population of many countries—presently behind bars in
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Reader Comments-Aug 25, 2005, a reader said:In this book, Angela Davis excoriates the U.S. prison industrial complex, which continues to...more |
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