Recs if you like The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness...
the government never cared for us ๐ฎ๐ผโโ๏ธ๐๐๏ธ
required reading for learning praxis, fighting fascism & neoliberalism, and embracing protest and uprising against capitalism and violence. not central to the U.S. additionally, includes books on queer politics, disability rights, indigenous fights for landback and much more. now is the time where it is more vital than ever that we sacrifice ourselves for the greater good. get educated folks.
You're not mad enough!
If you're looking to read something that will radicalize you...this is the list for you. Signed, your fave community organizer
Abolish ICE & Borders
nonfiction books to radicalize you about ICE & borders
*Note: I also have a list for abolishing prisons you should check out โค๏ธ
nonfiction to enrage and educate
reading is political.
recs welcome!
Further Reading: The New Jim Crow
Please let me know if Iโve missed anything, you have recommendations, or anything should be removed!
They didn't teach us that
history you probably didn't learn in school
This is why we can't have nice things
Books about how systems of inequality are constructed and maintained.
Black History
Books you SHOULD be reading all year
Anti-Fascism Reads
a list of books to educate yourself on social and political topics
Intro to Prison Abolition
All of the books listed here are introductory texts for Prison Abolition. The books on this list need no prior knowledge and are all great starting points for understanding prison abolition. You will find personal accounts, journalistic and essay books, as well as accessible analyses and histories of policing/incarceration
This list is the why of abolition
Anti-Racism Reading List
Not an expert here at all, but these are some of the books we have been reading in my anti-racism book club or shared by other anti-racism book clubs! Please feel free to share more!
non-fiction books about american politics๐ฆ ๐ฆ
books to read on 4th of july and beyond. politics/history/social issues, let me know if you have any suggestions!
Anti-Racist 101
You cannot be anti-capitalist if you are racist. Racism is the capitalistsโ sharpest sword.
No one is free until we all are free.
Focused on America and anti-blackness but touches on other groups as well.
Handbook for the Revolution
Why we need a revolution and how we get there
Brain Food (from kale to popcorn)
School-to-Prison Pipeline
The โschool-to-prison pipelineโ refers to the policies and practices that push our nationโs schoolchildren, especially our most at-risk children, out of classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. This pipeline reflects the prioritization of incarceration over education.
This list is for educational purposes.
I will have a comment categorizing these reads to help you know where you should start!
The ACAB Library
Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. Itโs just a promise of violence thatโs enacted and police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean? You guys wanna make some bacon?
Created by a surviving family member of a police-sanctioned lynching.
You & Me Against White Supremacy
Me & White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad, and books from as many of the authors mentioned therein that I could find. (Including books from the Further Learning section.)
NYT Top 100 Books of the 21st Century
In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)
Dark Academia but there's Actual Academia Involved
For those who want to learn a thing or two while they're acting out their dark academia dreams.
(read: dark and broody non-fiction that may or may not also be dense and/or academic)
