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Becoming Abolitionists - An Invitation (Hardcover)
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Becoming Abolitionists - An Invitation (Hardcover)
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A NONAME BOOK CLUB PICK Named a Kirkus Reviews "Best Book of 2021"
"Becoming Abolitionists is ultimately about the importance of
asking questions and our ability to create answers. And in the end,
Purnell makes it clear that abolition is a labor of love-one that
we can accomplish together if only we decide to." -Nia Evans,
Boston Review For more than a century, activists in the United
States have tried to reform the police. From community policing
initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the
police from killing about three people a day. Millions of people
continue to protest police violence because these "solutions" do
not match the problem: the police cannot be reformed. In Becoming
Abolitionists, Purnell draws from her experiences as a lawyer,
writer, and organizer initially skeptical about police abolition.
She saw too much sexual violence and buried too many friends to
consider getting rid of police in her hometown of St. Louis, let
alone the nation. But the police were a placebo. Calling them felt
like something, and something feels like everything when the other
option seems like nothing. Purnell details how multi-racial social
movements rooted in rebellion, risk-taking, and revolutionary love
pushed her and a generation of activists toward abolition. The book
travels across geography and time, and offers lessons that
activists have learned from Ferguson to South Africa, from
Reconstruction to contemporary protests against police shootings.
Here, Purnell argues that police can not be reformed and invites
readers to envision new systems that work to address the root
causes of violence. Becoming Abolitionists shows that abolition is
not solely about getting rid of police, but a commitment to create
and support different answers to the problem of harm in society,
and, most excitingly, an opportunity to reduce and eliminate harm
in the first place.
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