Reviews tagging 'Classism'

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

24 reviews

novella42's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

5.0

A powerful read, and a perspective shift I had never thought to question before. I'm glad I had the author-read audiobook, spending five hours listening to the incomparable Angela Davis was well worth the time.

"What would it mean to imagine a system in which punishment is not allowed to become the source of corporate profit? How can we imagine a society in which race and class are not primary determinants of punishment? Or one in which punishment itself is no longer the central concern in the making of justice? 

"An abolitionist approach that seeks to answer questions such as these would require us to imagine a constellation of alternative strategies and institutions, with the ultimate aim of removing the prison from the social and ideological landscapes of our society."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Murder, Pregnancy, Classism, and Deportation

jessthanthree's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, and Police brutality

Moderate: Torture, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Classism

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Murder, and Deportation

kirstenf's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, and Classism

Moderate: Sexual violence and Slavery

eve81's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, Colonisation, Classism, and Deportation

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

lucy12345's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual violence, Violence, and Police brutality

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Colonisation

wetdirtreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Classism

Minor: Drug use, Homophobia, Colonisation, and War

michaelion's review against another edition

hopeful informative fast-paced

4.25

I'd like to propose the opposite of Betteridge's law of headlines: Angela Y. Davis' law of book titles, which states that if a book asks the reader a question than answer as probably yes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Police brutality

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Murder, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, and Deportation

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

picoledenaranja's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, and Classism

Minor: Rape and Xenophobia