An Abolition Bibliography
In a group email, a friend shared this enlightening essay, “Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop,”
After becoming utterly disgusted with certain willfully ignorant responses, I created the following abolition bibliography and shared it with the group, first commenting:
I’ve been collecting abolition books since at least 2020, and it’s high time I start reading them cover to cover, not just the introductions. Clearly we all need to read these books. Here’s a bibliography:
Abolition Bibliography
Butler, Paul. Chokehold: Policing Black Men. The New Press: 2018.
Davis, Angela J., Edited and with an introduction by. Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment. Vintage Books, NY: 2017.
Davis, Angela Y., Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie. Abolition. Feminism. Now. Haymarket Books, Chicago: 2022.
Kaba, Mariame, and Andrea J. Ritchie. No More Police: A Case for Abolition. Forward by Black Visions. The New Press, NY & London: 2022.