My Black August 2024 Reading List Public

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These books were what I planned to read for Black August. More context can be found at jacky.wtf/essays/2024/black-august and jacky.wtf/essays/2024/on-black-august.

  1. Struggle Within by , ,

    5 stars

    jacky says:

    This was the first book I read for Black August. A solid whirlwind into the use of prisons and incarceration by states to avoid and control political dissenters.

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  2. Prison by Any Other Name by , ,

    5 stars

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  3. “Prisons Make Us Safer” by 

    3 stars

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  4. We Do This 'Til We Free Us by , ,

    5 stars

    A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer and educator Mariame Kaba.

    “Organizing …

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  5. Surviving the Future by , ,

    No rating

    Surviving the Future is a collection of the most current ideas in radical queer movement work and revolutionary queer theory. …

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  6. Black abolitionists by  (A Da Capo paperback)

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