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The New Abolitionists: (Neo)slave Narratives And Contemporary Prison Writings (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race)
Joy James
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In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities
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Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon
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Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons
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Engage: Indigenous, Black, and Afro-Indigenous Futures
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New Bones: Abolitionism and the Captive Maternal
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Seeking the Beloved Community
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The Black Feminist Reader
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Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics
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Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture
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The Problems of Resistance: Studies in Alternate Political Cultures (Radical Philosophy Today, V. 2)
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Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion
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The Angela Y. Davis Reader (Blackwell Readers)
Joy James (editor) and Angela Yvonne Davis
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Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals
Joy James
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Slave Patrols : Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (Harvard Historical Studies)
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Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison
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Big Prisons, Big Dreams: Crime and the Failure of America's Penal System (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)
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Parental Incarceration and the Family: Psychological and Social Effects of Imprisonment on Children, Parents, and Caregivers
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The First Civil Right: Race and the Rise of the Carceral State
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A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America
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Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
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Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse
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Abolition Democracy : Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Open Media Series)
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Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (American Crossroads)
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Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
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Discipline & Punish : The Birth of the Prison
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Death Blossoms : Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience
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Letters of Love and Hope
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The Greatest Threat: The Black Panther Party and COINTELPRO
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Guantánamo Diary
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It's the Poor Who Face the Savagery of the Us Justice System: The Cuban Five Talk of Their Lives Within the Us Working Class
Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, and René González
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Pipeline: Letters from Prison
Antonio Negri
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Letters and Papers from Prison
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Hauling Up the Morning: Writings and Art by Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in the U. S.
Tim Blunk, Raymond Luc Levasseur, Laura Whitehorn, Oscar Lopez Rivera, Prince Allah Cuba, David Gilbert, Sundiata Acoli, William Kunstler (preface), Assata Shakur (introduction), Marilyn Buck, Jamal Joseph, Kuwasi Balagoon, Sekou Odinga, and Susan Rosenberg
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Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance
Leonard Peltier, Harvey Arden, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and Ramsey Clark
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Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners
Ashanti Alston, Lynne Stewart, Matt Meyer, and Adolfo Perez Esquivel
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"To love me, is to love my country!" ...Lolita Lebron Her Story, Her Struggle
Lolita Lebron
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If They Come In The Morning
Angela Yvonne Davis (Editor)
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