Rad Mini Library

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis From AK Press https://www.akpress.org/areprisonsobsolete.html A short, impassioned, argument for abolition. Davis eloquently points out that mass incarceration has had little or no effect on crime, how disproportionate numbers of the poor and minorities end up in prison, and the obscene profits the system generates. Who needs it! "In this extraordinary book, Angela Davis challenges us to confront the human rights catastrophe in our jails and prisons. As she so convincingly argues, the contemporary US practice of super-incarceration is closer to new age slavery that to any recognizable system of 'criminal justice'..." —Mike Davis

We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by adrienne maree brown From AK Press Cancel or call-out culture is a fraught topic these days. Originating as a way for marginalized and disempowered people to address harm and take down powerful abusers, often with the help of social media, it is seen by some as having gone too far. But what is “too far” when you’re talking about imbalances of power and patterns of harm? And what happens when people in social movements direct our righteous anger inward at one another? In We Will Not Cancel Us , movement mediator adrienne maree brown reframes the discussion for us, in a way that points to possible paths beyond our impasse. Most critiques of cancel culture come from outside the milieus that produce it, sometimes even from its targets. Brown explores the question from a Black, queer, and feminist viewpoint that gently asks, how well does this practice serve us? Does it prefigure the sort of world we want to live in? And, ...

The Family Book. Todd Parr (Author) Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You. Jason Reynolds (Author)  Ibram X. Kendi (Author)  Sonja Cherry-Paul (Adapted by)  Rachelle Baker (Illustrator) Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women. Francesca Cavallo (Author)  Elena Favilli (Author) Red: A Crayon's Story. Michael Hall (Author) Last Stop on Market Street. Matt de la Peña (Author)  Christian Robinson (Illustrator) Worm Loves Worm. J J Austrian (Author)  Mike Curato (Illustrator)

Begin the World Over. Kung Li Sun (Author) Grievers. adrienne maree brown (Author) The Dispossessed. Ursula K Le Guin (Author) -- I read many of the books that are added to the Rad Mini Library, and reading these speculative fiction books back-to-back was particularly enjoyable and a good escape! How to Be an Antiracist. Ibram X. Kendi (Author) So You Want to Talk about Race. Ijeoma Oluo (Author) Between the World and Me. Ta-Nehisi Coates (Author) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Michelle Alexander (Author) The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart. Alicia Garza (Author)