Mariame Kaba
Autor(a) de We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
About the Author
Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, an abolitionist organization with a vision to end youth incarceration
Obras por Mariame Kaba
Lifting As They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago (2023) 10 exemplares
Let This Radicalize You Workbook 3 exemplares
Something Is Wrong: Exploring the Roots of Youth Violence — Editor — 1 exemplar
No Selves to Defend: A Legacy of Criminalizing Women of Colour for Self-Defense — Editor; Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future (2015) — Contribuidor — 142 exemplares
As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (2018) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 99 exemplares
Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons (2021) — Contribuidor — 69 exemplares
Trying to Make the Personal Political: Feminism and Consciousness-Raising (2017) — Prefácio — 8 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1971
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Ocupações
- activist
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 14
- Also by
- 6
- Membros
- 813
- Popularidade
- #31,389
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 17
- ISBN
- 24
- Línguas
- 1
As Kaba and Ritchie note, defunding “means investing the billions currently poured into policing and the prison-industrial complex into community-based safety strategies: meeting basic needs that include housing, health care, access to care for disabled people, childcare, elder care, a basic guaranteed income, and accessible, sustainable living-wage jobs.” The authors use three main arguments. First, they show how policing endangers, rather than protects, America’s most vulnerable communities. Second, they claim that calls for reforming the police—rather than abolition—are futile because the inherent violence of policing makes it impossible to reform. Finally, they argue that there are more effective ways to promote safety. “We call for abolition of police because, despite all of the power, resources and legitimacy we pour into them, they cannot and will not deliver safety,” they write. Kaba and Ritchie begin by showing how police manufacture crimes by focusing on making most of their arrests in certain “hot spots”—which, they argue, is code for brown and Black neighborhoods—while ignoring others. This perpetuates a culture of “fearmongering” that politicians use to divert funds to police and away from social services programs that have been proven to prevent violence. The authors urge a shift to an “abundance mindset,” in which the government stops using resources to punish marginalized populations and instead uses them to meet every American’s needs. Furthermore, they urge us to listen to survivors, who often encounter violence in the very systems that are allegedly set up to protect them. Kaba and Ritchie are knowledgeable, passionate, and skilled at elucidating complex concepts clearly, without sacrificing nuance. The book is deeply researched and flawlessly argued, and the plan they lay out is practical, compassionate, and circumspect.
A brilliantly articulated plan to abolish the police.
-Kirkus Review… (mais)