The Abolition Suite is a series of AirGo episodes exploring the concepts and practices of policing and prison abolition with the thought leaders who have been pushing an abolitionist future forward for decades. The Abolitionist Suite is presented in support of the #DefundCPD campaign and the Black Abolitionist Network.
This episode's guest is scholar, author, and historian Robin D.G. Kelley. A true digger and chronicler of Black liberation history, he explores the roots and routes of abolition, defines the concept of racial capitalism, and even takes off his historian hat briefly to imagine a liberatory future.
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SHOW NOTES:
Angela Davis Lectures on Liberation: archive.org/details/AngelaDavis…ecturesOnLiberation
Slavery and Social Death by Orlando Patterson: www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674986909
Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson: uncpress.org/book/9780807848296/black-marxism/
Black Reconstruction by Du Bois: www.zinnedproject.org/materials/blac…ction-america/
Organization for Black Struggle in STL: www.obs-stl.org/
Jamala Rogers: jamalarogers.com/about/
Black Radical Congress Agenda: www.obs-stl.org/wp-content/upload…REEDOM-AGENDA.pdf
M4BL Policy Statement: m4bl.org/policy-platforms/
Critical Resistance: criticalresistance.org/
CLR James: www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/biograph.htm
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney: www.versobooks.com/books/2785-how-…eveloped-africa
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America by Manning Marable: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/736-how…black-america
Groundings with my Brothers by Walter Rodney: www.versobooks.com/books/2787-the-…ith-my-brothers
Jah Kingdom by Monique A. Bedasse: uncpress.org/book/9781469633596/jah-kingdom/
Gina Dent: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Dent
Combahee River Collective: combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/the-com…nt.html