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What would it mean to abolish the police?

Police reform is front and center in the national conversation. Our bookseller Guy has compiled a list of resources to help you learn more about issues surrounding this important topic.

The End of Policing (Paperback)

By Alex S. Vitale

$17.95

ISBN: 9781784782924

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Published: Verso - August 28th, 2018

Are Prisons Obsolete? (Open Media Series) Cover Image

Are Prisons Obsolete? (Open Media Series) (Paperback)

By Angela Y. Davis

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ISBN: 9781583225813

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Published: Seven Stories Press - August 5th, 2003

Women, Race, & Class (Paperback)

By Angela Y. Davis

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ISBN: 9780394713519

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Published: Vintage - February 12th, 1983

Police: A Field Guide (Paperback)

By David Correia, Tyler Wall

$19.95

ISBN: 9781786630148

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Published: Verso - March 13th, 2018

Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America Cover Image

Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (Paperback)

By Kristian Williams

$22.00

ISBN: 9781849352154

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Published: AK Press - August 18th, 2015

Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter Cover Image

Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Paperback)

By Jordan T. Camp (Editor), Christina Heatherton (Editor)

$19.95

ISBN: 9781784783167

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Published: Verso - May 24th, 2016

Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis Cover Image

Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Paperback)

By Christian Parenti

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ISBN: 9781844672493

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Published: Verso - August 17th, 2008

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color Cover Image

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Paperback)

By Andrea Ritchie, Angela Y. Davis (Foreword by)

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ISBN: 9780807088982

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Published: Beacon Press - August 1st, 2017

From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation Cover Image

From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation (Paperback)

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

$17.95

ISBN: 9781608465620

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Published: Haymarket Books - February 23rd, 2016

Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics Cover Image

Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics (Paperback)

By Lester K. Spence

$19.00

ISBN: 9780692540794

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Published: Punctum Books - December 10th, 2015

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism Cover Image

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)

By Michael Parenti

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ISBN: 9780872863293

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Published: City Lights Books - January 1st, 2001

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (American Crossroads #21) Cover Image

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (American Crossroads #21) (Paperback)

By Ruth Wilson Gilmore

$28.95

ISBN: 9780520242012

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Published: University of California Press - January 8th, 2007

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America Cover Image

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Paperback)

By Elizabeth Hinton

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ISBN: 9780674979826

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Published: Harvard University Press - September 4th, 2017

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror Cover Image

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (Paperback)

By Mahmood Mamdani

$16.00

ISBN: 9780385515375

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Published: Harmony - June 21st, 2005

Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (American Crossroads #56) Cover Image

Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (American Crossroads #56) (Paperback)

By Stuart Schrader

$34.95

ISBN: 9780520295629

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Published: University of California Press - October 15th, 2019

Books to Inform, Educate, Activate

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A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota Cover Image

A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota (Paperback)

By Sun Yung Shin, Taiyon Coleman (Contributions by), Heid E. Erdrich (Contributions by), Vanessa Fuentes (Contributions by), Shannon Gibney (Contributions by), David Grant (Contributions by), Carolyn Holbrook (Contributions by), IBé (Contributions by), Andrea Jenkins (Contributions by), Robert Karimi (Contributions by), JaeRan Kim (Contributions by), Sherry Quan Lee (Contributions by), David Mura (Contributions by), Bao Phi (Contributions by), Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria (Contributions by), Diane Wilson (Contributions by), Kao Kalia Yang (Contributions by)

$18.95

ISBN: 9781681340029

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Published: Minnesota Historical Society Press - April 1st, 2016

How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)

By Ibram X. Kendi

$27.00

ISBN: 9780525509288

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Published: One World - August 13th, 2019

Stay Woke: A People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter Cover Image

Stay Woke: A People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter (Paperback)

By Tehama Lopez Bunyasi, Candis Watts Smith

$18.95

ISBN: 9781479836482

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Published: New York University Press - September 24th, 2019

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies Cover Image

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (Paperback)

By Resmaa Menakem

$17.95

ISBN: 9781942094470

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Published: Central Recovery Press - September 19th, 2017

Between the World and Me (Hardcover)

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

$26.00

ISBN: 9780812993547

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Published: One World - July 14th, 2015

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir Cover Image

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Paperback)

By Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele

$16.99

ISBN: 9781250306906

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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - January 14th, 2020

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Cover Image

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Paperback)

By Michelle Alexander

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ISBN: 9781620971932

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Published: New Press - January 7th, 2020

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Cover Image

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Paperback)

By Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)

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ISBN: 9780807047415

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Published: Beacon Press - June 26th, 2018

Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America Cover Image

Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America (Hardcover)

By Nefertiti Austin

$25.99

ISBN: 9781492679011

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Published: Sourcebooks - September 20th, 2019

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Cover Image

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Paperback)

By Ibram X. Kendi

$19.99

ISBN: 9781568585987

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Published: Bold Type Books - August 15th, 2017

Negroland: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Margo Jefferson

$16.00

ISBN: 9780307473431

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Published: Vintage - August 23rd, 2016

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Cover Image

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Paperback)

By Carol Anderson

$17.00

ISBN: 9781632864130

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Published: Bloomsbury USA - September 5th, 2017

The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) Cover Image

The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By James Baldwin

$13.95

ISBN: 9780679744726

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Published: Vintage - December 1st, 1992

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race Cover Image

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race (Paperback)

By Jesmyn Ward

$16.00

ISBN: 9781501126352

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Published: Scribner - June 20th, 2017

White Girls (Paperback)

By Hilton Als

$17.00

ISBN: 9780143134756

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Published: Penguin Books - July 9th, 2019

The White Card: A Play (Paperback)

By Claudia Rankine

$16.00

ISBN: 9781555978396

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Published: Graywolf Press - March 19th, 2019

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Cover Image

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Paperback)

By Nancy Isenberg

$18.00

ISBN: 9780143129677

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Published: Penguin Books - April 4th, 2017

The History of White People (Paperback)

By Nell Irvin Painter

$18.95

ISBN: 9780393339741

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 18th, 2011

Giovanni's Room (Vintage International) Cover Image

Giovanni's Room (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By James Baldwin

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ISBN: 9780345806567

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Published: Vintage - September 12th, 2013

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