Session 6: Black Lives Matter and Defund the Police
2018-2021 Core Readings:
Mariame
Kaba
(2020) - Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police. New York Times 12 June 2020 (2 pages)
(2020) - Reformist Reforms vs Abolitionist Steps for UK policing (2 pages)
History of the Establishment of the London Metropolitan Police. Drawn Out Thinking. (Illustration/Comic12 pages)
Paul Gilroy in conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore. 7th June 2020. (Podcast 42 minutes or transcript 7 pages)
Further reading:
If you’re joining an Abolitionist Futures reading group for the second time, we recommend you read some of these instead of the core readings.
Robyn
Maynard (2017) Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present. Fernwood Press.
Andrea J
Ritchie
(2017) Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. Beacon Press.
Critical Resistance (2020) Abolition of Policing Workshop CriticalResistance.org
Beth Richie (2012) Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America’s Prison Nation. New York University Press
Andrea
Ritchie & Mariame Kaba and Wood Ervin (2020) Defund the Police Toolkit. InterruptingCriminalisation.com (24 pages)