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Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

June 11, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

If you look at a bestseller list at this particular moment, it’s stacked top-to-bottom with black writers and white antiracist educators. That’s good, it shows that white Americans want to learn how to identify their racism and eradicate it. However, I’ve heard from multiple black people and other antiracist educators some frustration that Angela Davis’ work hasn’t been centered more. Most of the books purchased have come out in the last few years, while Dr. Davis has been doing antiracism work for five decades. Her […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete, mass incarceration, prison abolitionism, prison industrial complex

Jake's CBR12 Review No:100 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete, mass incarceration, prison abolitionism, prison industrial complex ·
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