Primary Readings Roberts, Dorothy. Killing the Black Body. New York: Pantheon, 1997 (excerpts). Roberts, Dorothy. Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. New York: Basic Books, 2002 (excerpts). Roberts, Dorothy. “Prison, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers.” UCLA… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Davis, Angela. Are Prisons Obsolete? New York: Seven Stories Press, 2011. McLeod, Allegra. “Prison Abolition and Grounded Justice,” 62 UCLA L. Rev. 1156 (2015): 1156-1239. Available at https://www.uclalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/McLeod_6.2015.pdf. Secondary Materials Harcourt, Bernard E. “Reducing Mass Incarceration: Lessons from… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Liliana Segura, “The Death Penalty’s Other Victims,” The Intercept, December 26, 2020, https://theintercept.com/2020/12/26/execution-death-penalty-families-orlando-hall/. Liliana Segura, “Another Failed Execution: The Torture of Doyle Lee Hamm,” The Intercept, March 3, 2018, https://theintercept.com/2018/03/03/doyle-hamm-alabama-execution-lethal-injection/. Juana Summers, “Democrats Unveil Legislation To Abolish The Federal Death… Continue Reading
Primary Reading Foucault, Michel. The Punitive Society. Trans. Graham Burchell. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015.
Primary Readings Adorno, Theodor W. “Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?” In V. Meja, D. Misgeld and N. Stehr, eds, Modern German Sociology, Columbia University Press, New York, 1987, p. 232. Marcuse, Herbert. The One-Dimensional Man, 34-55. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964.… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels. Manifesto of the Communist Party. Ed. Frederick Engels. New York: International Publishers, 1948. Marx, Karl. “Critique of the Gotha Programme.” In Marx/Engels Selected Works, Volume Three, 13-30. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1970. Proudhon, Pierre Joseph.… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Childs, Dennis. Slaves of the State- Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary. University of Minnesota Press, 2018 (chapters 2 and 3). Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. They Were Her Property. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Hartman, Saidiya. “Venus… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Vitale, Alex S. The End of Policing. New York: Verso, 2017. Akbar, Amna. “An Abolitionist Horizon for Police (Reform)” (August 10, 2020). California Law Review, Vol. 108, No. 6, 2020,. Available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3670952 Purnell, Derecka. “How I Became a… Continue Reading
Primary Materials Du Bois, W.E.B. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880. New York: The Free Press, 1998. Davis, Angela. Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prison, Torture, and Empire. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005. Thomas, Kendall. “Envisioning Abolition: Sex, Citizenship, and the Racial… Continue Reading
Primary Readings McLeod, Allegra. “Envisioning Abolition Democracy.” Harvard Law Review 132, no. 6 (2019): 1613-1649. Available at https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1613-1649_Online.pdf. The website of the The Digital Abolitionist here: https://www.thedigitalabolitionist.com/ The Digital Abolitionist’s Library here: https://www.thedigitalabolitionist.com/resources Additional Materials Harris, Angela. “Compassion and… Continue Reading