Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

31 reviews

shholmes's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, and Classism

tacita's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Gun violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Classism

flamingtashhh's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

I mean, it’s a classic for a reason. Often cited and never replicated, Davis’ work just had me unraveling question after question. I feel like a lot of the material that she covered is material I’m familiar with at this point, but because her work has been cited so often. 

Some things I’d like to explore more following this book:
1. The colonization of the land by prisons. What effect on the environment and our connection to it does the logic and PHYSICAL fact of prisons have? 
2. Racial capitalism and borders. How does the global migration of labor impact prisons? What similarities does this share with the Atlantic Slave Trade? 
3. Gender-making and prisons. What does the logic of prison reform do to our notions of gender? How is this related to colonial notions of gender and citizenship? 
4. Punishment and violence, specifically an expansion of the idea that domestic and sexual violence is the basis of punishment in women’s prisons. 

There’s more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

nickshutter's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, and Classism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Torture, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Islamophobia, Grief, and War

jehansflowers's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

i dont really feel comfortable giving this book a star rating, but it was absolutely brilliant. its incredibly well written and very informative. she fits a lot of information into a small book with accessible writing. she makes a shit ton of brilliant points, with heaps of research, evidence, and experience, and both puts into words concepts that i could never accurately express, and shares multifaceted and very intelligent points that i never would have thought of myself. all in all, highly recommend for people who have been involved with abolition for decades, baby leftists, or for anyone you're trying to radicalize

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Slavery

Moderate: Rape, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, and Islamophobia

daydreamermoonwalker's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

Very informative, it really made me rethink the way our entire justice system is set up. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to learn more about prison abolition, or just the US prison system in general. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Islamophobia, and Murder

smallredboy's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Wow. This book was a heavy read, but is very important and informative toward the problems with the prison system and the search for prison abolition.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Violence

georgiarybanks's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Forced institutionalization

fionac326's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Racism, and Sexual assault

secanno's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, and Police brutality