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Liberating Library

African Diaspora

Autobiography & Biography

Environmentalism

Gender, Queer, & Women’s Studies

Prisons & Policing

Organizing & Activism

Revolutionary History

Socialism & Communism

War & Imperialism

Youtube Channels

Additional Sources

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African Diaspora

Autobiography & Biography

Environmentalism

Gender, Queer, & Women’s Studies

Prisons & Policing

Organizing & Activism

Revolutionary History

Socialism & Communism

War & Imperialism

Youtube Channels

Additional Sources

Prisons & policing

Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing by Jeffrey S. Adler

Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era By Dan Berger

The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States by Dan Berger

Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter Edited by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton

The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the Fbi's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall

The Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall

Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State by Andrew Crosby and Jeffrey Monaghan

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture by Angela Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis

If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance Edited by Angela Y. Davis

Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State by Stephen Dillon

Black Resistance to British Policing By Adam Elliott-Cooper

Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of World War I to the Streets of Today by Anna Feigenbaum

Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State By Garrett Felber

The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson

Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal by Edited by Johanna Fernandez

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci

Blood In My Eye by George Jackson

Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion Edited by Joy James

Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture by Joy James

Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison by Paula C. Johnson

We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by MARIAME KABA

Prisons Make Us Safer: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration by VICTORIA LAW

A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete by GEO MAHER

Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present By Robyn Maynard

We Are Our Own Liberators: Selected Prison Writings by Jalil Muntaqim

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by DERECKA PURNELL

The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to The 1990s by John Potash

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie

Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing by Stuart Schrader

Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom by Sarah A. Seo

Maroon the Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz by Russell Maroon Shoatz

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex Edited by Nat Smith and Eric A. Stanley

From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex by The CRIO Publications Collective

Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions by Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Jamal Joseph, and Sekou Odinga

Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the U.S. War Against Black Revolutionaries By Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Assata Shakur and Mumia Abu-Jamal

Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang

The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America by Kristian Williams

Solitary by ALBERT WOODFOX