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Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world". Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom.
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- 10-16-21
Started off great but devolved into case study
The first couple chapters of this book were awesome but then it progressed into a case study about Mom activists that didn't seem super relevant to the larger points being made. Felt like the book ran out of steam and then just ended without making much in the way of advocacy.
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Thank you for breaking it down! I will listen again’
Thank you Ruth Wilson Gilmore for breaking down the build up of California’s prison nation thru policy, economics, segregation, and more. I enjoyed the last chapters as well. I will be listening to the book at x2! I am a Criminology doctoral student.
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, even economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly original development unforeseen by either classical Marxism or neoliberal theory. Are the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, volcanoes waiting to erupt?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A little dated ring when was originally published
- By Terence A. Dodge on 07-05-22
By: Mike Davis
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Elite Capture
- How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)
- By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smth
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 87
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 87
“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom. But the “identity politics” so compulsively referenced bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity across lines of difference, “identity politics” is now frequently weaponized as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read for anyone who wants a better world
- By Kindle Customer on 02-05-23
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Black Marxism
- The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Third Edition
- By: Cedric J. Robinson, Robin D.G. Kelley - foreword, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard - preface, and others
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story5 out of 5 stars 13
In this ambitious work, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of Black people and Black communities as agents of change and resistance. Black radicalism, Robinson argues, must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on Western continents, and any analyses of African American history need to acknowledge this.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"Racial Capitalism"
- By Don Morris on 09-02-22
By: Cedric J. Robinson, and others
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
- By: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story5 out of 5 stars 45
With her characteristic brilliance, grace, and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration," and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought Provoking
- By maggieagonistes on 11-09-22
By: Angela Y. Davis
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
- The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
- By: Elizabeth Hinton
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72
In the United States today, one in every 31 adults is under some form of penal control, including one in 11 African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful
- By myurko on 12-29-16
By: Elizabeth Hinton
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Scenes of Subjection
- Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
- By: Saidiya V. Hartman
- Narrated by: Nichole Marie
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story5 out of 5 stars 22
In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected; in particular, the encroachments of power that take place through notions of humanity, enjoyment, protection, rights, and consent. Bold and persuasively argued, Scenes of Subjection will engage listeners in a broad range of historical, literary, and cultural studies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very thorough text on the subjugation of Black Americans
- By K.Nicholson on 09-20-21
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Hammer and Hoe
- Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
- By: Robin D. G. Kelley
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story5 out of 5 stars 58
The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate Black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of Whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. In this book, Robin D. G. Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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inspiring
- By Scott on 05-11-22
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Set the Night on Fire
- L.A. in the Sixties
- By: Mike Davis, Jon Wiener
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 25 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Los Angeles in the '60s was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power - where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of “Asian American” as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women’s movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazingly comprehensive story of a critical decade.
- By Manifesta on 11-29-20
By: Mike Davis, and others
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We Do This ‘Til We Free Us
- Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
- By: Mariame Kaba
- Narrated by: Diana Blue
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Story5 out of 5 stars 72
What if social transformation and liberation isn't about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle.
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4 out of 5 stars
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content is great, but audiobook is unlistenable
- By Lesley Bredell on 03-22-22
By: Mariame Kaba
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Discipline & Punish
- The Birth of the Prison
- By: Michel Foucault
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 459
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 383
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 375
This groundbreaking audiobook by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about all the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West. For as Foucault examines innovations that range from the abolition of torture to the institution of forced labor and the appearance of the modern penitentiary, he suggests that punishment has shifted its focus from the prisoner's body to his soul-and that our very concern with rehabilitation encourages and refines criminal activity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORE FOUCAULT PLEASE!!
- By Maggie on 01-02-14
By: Michel Foucault
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Becoming Abolitionists
- Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
- By: Derecka Purnell
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 119
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Story5 out of 5 stars 119
For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day. Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these “solutions” do not match the problem: The police cannot be reformed. In Becoming Abolitionists, Purnell draws from her experiences as a lawyer, writer, and organizer initially skeptical about police abolition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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highly recommended
- By C.O. on 12-17-21
By: Derecka Purnell
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Freedom Dreams (Twentieth Anniversary Edition)
- The Black Radical Imagination
- By: Robin D.G. Kelley, Aja Monet - foreword
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
First published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the Black radical tradition. Unearthing the thrilling history of grassroots movements and renegade intellectuals and artists, Kelley recovers the dreams of the future worlds Black radicals struggled to achieve.
By: Robin D.G. Kelley, and others
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No More Police
- A Case for Abolition
- By: Mariame Kaba, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kandace Montgomery - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
In this powerful call to action, New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba and attorney and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie detail why policing doesn't stop violence, instead perpetuating widespread harm; outline the many failures of contemporary police reforms; and explore demands to defund police, divest from policing, and invest in community resources to create greater safety through a Black feminist lens. No More Police makes a compelling case for a world where the tools required to prevent, interrupt, and transform violence in all its forms are abundant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read
- By Nikki Johnson on 01-02-23
By: Mariame Kaba, and others
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City of Quartz
- Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
- By: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 104
No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together". To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it". To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A People’s History of Los Angeles
- By J. Briggs on 08-03-18
By: Mike Davis
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Necropolitics
- By: Achille Mbembe, Steven Corcoran - translator
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
In Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side - what he calls its "nocturnal body" - which is based on the desires, fears, affects, relations, and violence that drove colonialism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Forget critical race theory
- By Ian on 01-08-23
By: Achille Mbembe, and others
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Insane
- America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
- By: Alisa Roth
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 102
America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. In this revelatory book, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to tell how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker. Through intimate stories of people in the system and those trying to fix it, Roth reveals the hidden forces behind this crisis and suggests how a fairer and more humane approach might look.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great required reading
- By K. C. H on 01-16-19
By: Alisa Roth
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Prison by Any Other Name
- The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
- By: Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law, Michelle Alexander - foreword
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 53
Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data-driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost-effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But many of these so-called reforms actually widen the net, weaving in new strands of punishment and control, and bringing new populations, who would not otherwise have been subject to imprisonment, under physical control by the state.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I would give this book 6 stars out of 5.
- By Happy on 11-28-20
By: Maya Schenwar, and others
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City of Inmates
- Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
- By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged