I’d read Mercedes Eng’s poetry collection, Prison Industrial Complex Explodes, previously, but I felt like I needed to better understand the concept and history of the abolition movement—and Angela Davis does a wonderful job of laying the groundwork.
Even though she’s a scholar and an academic, Angela Davis writes in such a way that even someone like me, who knew very little, could grasp these ideas and not feel intimidated, because abolition really is a big, big subject. Even so, I definitely want to (and need to!) re-read this a few times.