Marxist Book Club - hosted by miajakobsen

Abolition and Anarchism
Examining prisons and borders, along with other abolitionist works.
All books added
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

158 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

The End of Policing

Alex S. Vitale

missing duration info • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative medium-paced
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

752 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics true crime challenging informative slow-paced
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition by Eric A. Stanley, Nat Smith

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition

Eric A. Stanley, Nat Smith

425 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility by Marc Lamont Hill

We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility

Marc Lamont Hill

128 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
When Justice Is a Game: Unravelling Wrongful Conviction in Canada by MaDonna R. Maidment

When Justice Is a Game: Unravelling Wrongful Conviction in Canada

MaDonna R. Maidment

124 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

Harsha Walia

10 hours, 17 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

16 hours, 57 minutes • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

Anarchism and Other Essays

Emma Goldman

304 pages • first pub 1910 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

Derecka Purnell

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced