By Kaagni Harekal Over the past year, ‘social work’ and ‘community building’ have become catch-all phrases in conversations about prison and police abolition. The presumption in deploying these terms is that a) they are capacious and resilient enough to accommodate… Continue Reading
By Anita Yandle On February 25, 2021, I walked the familiar path from my apartment on the border of Morningside Heights and West Harlem to the 125th Street subway stop. Each time, I walk past the same flimsy wall guarding… Continue Reading
By Iván-Nicholas Cisneros Within the streets of New York City, posted along a temporary dark-green coated plywood wall, presumably erected as a barrier between a construction site and pedestrian flow, three wheat paste posters communicate urgent messages concerning family policing… Continue Reading
By Sara Almohamadi For a previous seminar, Abolition Democracy 4/13 on the Abolition of Slavery, Stephanie Jones-Rogers wrote “slavery was a system created and sustained by a series of robberies. Such acts were committed not just by individuals but also… Continue Reading
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
Abolition Collective. “Our Evolving Mission and Goals.” Abolition Collective, https://www.collectiveforaboliton.org/our-mission. Achiume, E. Tendayi. “Migration as Decolonization.” 71 Stanford Law Review 1509 (2019). Adorno, Theodor W. “Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?” In V. Meja, D. Misgeld and N. Stehr, eds, Modern… Continue Reading