Becoming abolitionists : police, protests, and the pursuit of freedom / by Derecka Purnell.

"Purnell details how multi-racial social movements rooted in rebellion, risk-taking, and revolutionary love pushed her and a generation of activists toward abolition. The book travels across geography and time, and offers lessons that activists have learned from Ferguson to South Africa, from R...

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Main Author: Purnell, Derecka (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Astra House, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: How I became a police abolitionist
  • What justice?
  • First we were free
  • Resistance and reform
  • Love and abolition
  • Justice for the living
  • Sex, love, and violence
  • Dehumanization, disability, and resistance
  • "We only want the Earth"
  • Conclusion.