This is the book list for the winter class on abolition at Seattle University School of Law. This list is informing the community syllabus on abolition. You DO NOT need to purchase all (or any) of these texts to engage the community syllabus and materials that I will be posting online. I will provide readings, videos, podcasts that do not require you to purchase anything to access them. However, if you can access the below text I will recommend some readings you can do related to specific subject areas of abolition.

This initial community syllabus will be a “survey” of many topics that live within the framework of abolition. In future opportunities we will dig deeper into specific areas.

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Recommended Book List

Reminder: These are helpful text for the community syllabus. I have provided links to PDFs where those are available. You do NOT need to purchase these for the community abolition syllabus to be accessible. I will provide other readings, podcast, and videos as well.

• “Are Prisons Obsolete?” by Angela Davis (PDFs can be found here on "The Anarchist Library" and here for a more book like version.)

• "Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement” Edited by Ejeris Dixon and LEah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

• “Color of Violence” The INCITE! Anthology edited by INCITE! WOmen of Color Against Violence

• “Invisible No more: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color” by Andrea J. Ritchie (The Invisible No More Study Guide)

• “Prison By Any Other Name” by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law

• “Until We Reckon” by Danielle Sered (Find audio book here.)

• "Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect” A Truthout Collection (PDF can be found here on "The Anarchist Library.")