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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (137): 119–140.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and domestically, through its narrative of repairing trauma and harm through community care rather than punishment or retribution. This reading shows that Morrison’s rewriting of the 1950s in Home places the contemporary idioms of police and prison abolition and transformative justice in a broader historical...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (140): 186–196.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Mobilization Project to build a nationally powerful and locally rooted movement to advance prison abolition as an HIV prevention strategy. Waheedah was my partner in organizing. That September, we traveled to Fort Lauderdale for the annual United States Conference on AIDS. Against a backdrop of service...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 151–166.
Published: 01 May 2023
... women prison abolition open letters from prison COVID-19 pandemic The first documented case of COVID-19 in California was on January 26, 2020. It soon spread to California prisons, where outbreaks and lockdowns wreaked havoc. This new threat facing people inside prison could only be dimly...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (145): 147–164.
Published: 01 January 2023
... dismantle ideologies and policies that consolidate power for some at the expense of others. But abolition, be it of prisons or borders, is not just about dismantling unjust institutions, it is about building just institutions that enable equity.” Border abolition means reckoning with histories...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (126): 194–196.
Published: 01 October 2016
... organized around
issues of sexual justice, prison abolition, and affordable public education. His work has
appeared in the Feminist Wire and Peace and Conflict Monitor and is forthcoming in Gender
and History.
Jonathan Culleton is a lecturer in sociology and criminal justice studies at Waterford...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (140): 1–8.
Published: 01 May 2021
... regime and those who have taken to the streets to protest it. McTighe traces the confluence of the AIDS and prison abolition movements in her essay on two activist projects in Philadelphia, Project TEACH and UNSHACKLE. She outlines a praxis of harm reduction, mutual aid, and transformative justice...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 11–31.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Cages’ in Vietnam: How the Call for U.S. Prison Abolition Is a Global Issue .” UC Press Blog , July 17 , 2020 . https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/51234/tiger-cages-in-vietnam-how-the-call-for-u-s-prison-abolition-is-a-global-issue/ . Schrecker Ellen . The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (137): 141–156.
Published: 01 May 2020
... immigrants from the sanctuary protections provided by Chicago’s 2012 Welcoming City Ordinance. The campaign seeks to eliminate gang databases as a decarceral tactic in the struggle for the abolition of police, prisons, detention centers, and immigration enforcement. Our research has generated three public...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (141): 151–175.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., the issue also contained calls for action ranging from the release of prisoners to the abolition of prisons. Prison Covid highlights Mead’s and others’ ongoing efforts to balance the need to avoid censorship with the goal of critiquing and exposing the violence of the prison system. The publication’s...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (137): 1–12.
Published: 01 May 2020
... requires a radical imagination, but contemporary organizers are not the first to attempt such a thorough overturning of social, political, and economic structures. Indeed, by invoking the word abolition to describe their aims, the multifaceted movements working to end policing and prisons recall a long...
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Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (96): 155–156.
Published: 01 October 2006
... Braz is national campaign director of Critical Resistance (CR), a national grassroots
organization seeking an end to the use of prisons as an answer to social problems. CR
works toward abolition through movement building, grassroots campaigns conducted by
CR’s ten local chapters, and public...
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Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (78): 166–177.
Published: 01 October 2000
... be read as a claim
that their struggles lay the foundation for the eventual abolition of
slavery in France in 1848. This claim is a departure from traditional,
mainstream French accounts of how and why abolition occurred in that
year, and represents an important shift of emphasis...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 120–122.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., wrongfully convicted person. The crime I was convicted of would be classified by some as a social crime, making me a social prisoner. Upon incarceration, I began to study a number of topics with widespread outside support: penal abolition, Black radical thought, Black feminist thought, queer theory...
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Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (96): 137–150.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Carolyn Strange Nikolaus Wachsmann, Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. Michael J. Pfeifer, Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874 - 1947 . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Diana Paton, No Bond but the Law...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (126): 1–10.
Published: 01 October 2016
... reconsideration of the state’s power to coerce and con-
trol through gendered violence and the proposed abolition of the prison-industrial
complex.1
Meanwhile, scholars of empire, ethnicity, and postcolonial studies have gen-
erated new understandings of the ways in which gender, violence...
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (100): 120–143.
Published: 01 January 2008
... to
glimpse a breathing space for reconstituting connections and relations based in col-
lectivity and healing.
With this analysis in mind, all attempts to separate and make discrete strug-
gles for social justice and transformation — those working for prison abolition, sexual
and gender freedom...
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Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (55): 89–110.
Published: 01 January 1993
... Papers; Harlow, Smith,
291-93; Clifton H. Johnson, ”The American Missionary Association, 1846-1861: A
Study of Christian Abolitionism” (Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of North Carolina,
1958), 150-53 (second quotation); Thompson, Prison Life, 38 (second quotation).
21. Courtland Standard (2 May...
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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (118): 64–91.
Published: 01 January 2014
... of the Prison Informa-
tion Group, and the writings of the Prison Abolition Movement, all of which drew
upon the history of enslavement (as well as upon homologies between the plantation
and the prison) to articulate the enclosures that enabled the age of finance.47
Fantasy Chronotopes: The Sword...
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Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (78): 1–4.
Published: 01 October 2000
... on the historical and political work of Herbert Aptheker. Ap-
theker's extensive writing on African American history, particularly
slavery and the struggle for abolition, "challenged the then dominant
view of the docile slave and the benign slavery system" and sought to
establish the centrality...
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Radical History Review (1991) 1991 (50): 143–180.
Published: 01 May 1991
... about work-
ing people’s struggles, defined broadly to embrace the political activity of
women, gays and lesbians, and African Americans. Issues of the magazine
have addressed the energy crisis, computer technology, the peace move-
ment, policing and prisons, wage cuts and resistance against...
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