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unusualmusic_lj_archive ([personal profile] unusualmusic_lj_archive) wrote2008-12-26 02:15 pm
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Books!

So I asked Mama dearest for cash instead of kind this Christmas so that i could get some books. (The woman has a bad habit of buying me perfumes I don't wear for gifts) And behold the loot that cometh:

Thinking Class: Sketches from a Cultural Worker

This one has been under consideration for months. Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity

Unfortunately, these last three were sent to an old address so they will hopefully be forwarded.


I have been coveting this one for a WHILE!When the Prisoners Ran Walpole: A True Story in the Movement for Prison Abolition

Women of Ideas: And What Men Have Done to Them

Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics

On the coveted list?Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor

EDIT: Our Enemies in Blue and Instead of Prisons

HEE!

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_yggdrasil/ 2008-12-26 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
These look really good (and I'm with you on perfumes, which are typically chemicals you don't want on your skin anyway).

Prison abolition? You know, I think it's a testament to how much the whole prison concept dominates American society that I never even stopped to think about what it would be like if it weren't there (or at least, in the form we currently know it).

[identity profile] unusualmusic.livejournal.com 2008-12-26 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
if you are interested, you could do worse than to start with this:

Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis.

I want to get this as wellPrison Nation

And this caught my eye while I was browsing:Instead of Prisons