Ending Isolation
This year, comrades inside are reading Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement. For those who wish to read alongside our comrades inside, use the discount code BLACKWELL30 to receive 30% off from Pluto Press, or support your local independent bookstore. We also invite you to explore the nationwide Journey to Justice bus tour, which blends artivism, public education, and immersive experiences to raise awareness about solitary confinement and fuel movements to end this barbaric practice.
Alongside this shared text, our Study and Struggle groups selected readings across the themes below. Reading guides for these texts, except for the newly introduced Theme 5, are available on our previous Curriculum pages.
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Readings:
Caits Messner, ed., The Sentences that Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison
Victoria Law, Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
Drawing of David N. Rosen and Bobby G. Seale (1971), Robert Templeton. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. CC BY-SA 2.0.
Readings:
Lorenzo Komb’oa Ervin, Anarchism and the Black Revolution
George Jackson, Blood in My Eye
Susie Day, ed., The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk About Life, Politics, and The Revolution
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Readings:
Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie, No More Police: A Call for Abolition
Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes, Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Artwork by Linoca Souza for Fine Acts. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY NC SA 4.0)
Readings:
Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Joy James, In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities
Robin Kelley and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, eds., Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies
Readings:
Reiko Hillyer, A Wall is Just a Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in 20th Cent. U.S.
Justin Randolph, Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside