Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Are Prisons Obsolete?, by Angela Y. Davis

12 reviews

oworthyfool's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Sexism, and Injury/injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Mental illness, Murder, and Medical content

tigerlark's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring medium-paced

4.25

A deeply informative book that changed my mind on several things! I wish Davis had gone a little further in explaining restorative justice and how that looks in a more practical context. But it was still a fascinating read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, and Confinement

Moderate: Violence, Torture, Police brutality, and Slavery

justinareads's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Misogyny, Police brutality, Sexual violence, and Torture

thoughtsontomes's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

This is a good starting point for studying the links between prisons, capitalism, and racism. It does provide some starting points for alternatives to prisons at the end, but that topic requires further reading. This is much more about the point of the title - that prisons should be obsolete and what is happening behind closed doors. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Racism, Torture, and Slavery

sydneybedell's review against another edition

challenging informative fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Torture, Slavery, Sexism, Racism, Murder, Misogyny, Medical content, Homophobia, Hate crime, and Police brutality

wetdirtreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

Minor: Colonisation, War, Homophobia, and Drug use

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

nickshutter's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

mia7's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Violence, and Torture

Minor: Slavery and Racism

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, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Physical abuse

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

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