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Abolition : politics, practices, promises. Volume I / Angela Y. Davis.

by Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- author.

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Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2024.

Prison-industrial complex.

9798888900536 (hardback) :

xvi, 280 pages ; 23 cm

Preface -- Part I: Capitalism, democracy, and the prison. The prisoner exchange: the underside of civil rights -- Prison: a sign of US democracy? -- Part II: Slavery and the US prison: genealogical connections. From the prison of slavery to the slavery of prison: Frederick Douglass and the convict lease system -- From the convict lease system to the super-max prison -- Part III: Disarticulating crime and punishment: emerging abolitionist frameworks. Race and criminalization: Black Americans and the punishment Industry -- Changing attitudes toward crime and punishment -- Public imprisonment and private violence: reflections on the hidden punishment of women -- Part IV: Rethinking incarceration: identifying the prison industrial complex. Masked racism: reflections on the prison industrial complex -- Race, gender, and the prison industrial complex: California and beyond / with Cassandra Shaylor -- Part V: Incarcerated women: the Netherlands, the United States, and Cuba. Women in prison: researching race in three national contexts / with Kum-Kum Bhavnani -- Incarcerated women: transformative strategies / with Kum-Kum Bhavnani -- Fighting for her future: reflections on human rights and women's prisons in the Netherlands / with Kum-Kum Bhavnani.

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