The below list of materials is abolitionist food-for-thought. Each collective-author pushes the limits of what a mass struggle to abolish white supremacist domestic warfare and the U.S. prison industrial complex could look like. These can be shared electronically, printed out, mailed to friends/comrades, memorized, or otherwise circulated freely.
All items reproduced for educational purposes and are not the creation of True Leap Press
Reading List for January 2018:
Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Davis - Slavery and the Prison Industrial Complex
Angela Davis & Cassandra Shaylor - Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex
Liz Appel - White Supremacy in the Movement Against the Prison-Industrial-Complex
Frank Wilderson - The Prison Slave As Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal
> Courtesy of Ill Will Editions
Julia C. Oparah - Maroon Abolitionists: Black Gender-Oppressed Activists in the Anti-Prison Movement
Mariame Kaba - On Self-Defense
> To learn about Mariame’s work, see: US Prison Culture (blog) or follow her on twitter: @prisonculture
Butch Lee - The Re-Biography of Harriett Tubman
> This book is originally published by Kersplebedeb, and can be purchased at https://www.leftwingbooks.net
Critical Resistance - The Abolitionist Toolkit
> Learn more about Critical Resistance and follow them on twitter: @C_Resistance
>This book is originally published by Kersplebedeb, and can be purchased at https://www.leftwingbooks.net
Dylan Rodríguez - On the Fascism Problematic
Dylan Rodríguez - Genocide and/as American Social Formation
Sub.Media - What is Race?
Andrea Smith - Three Pillars of White Supremacy
Denise Ferreira Da Silva - Toward a Global Idea of Race
Seminario Permanente de Teoría y Crítica - Book Review: Toward a Global Idea of Race
all items reproduced for educational purposes
and are not the creation of True Leap Press
