Description
A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer and educator Mariame Kaba.
Author: Mariame Kaba
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 02/23/2021
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781642594287
ISBN10: 1642594288
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Discrimination
- Social Science | Penology
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
About the Author
Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame is currently a researcher at Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018.
Mariame has co-founded multiple other organizations and projects over the years including We Charge Genocide, the Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, Love & Protect, the Just Practice Collaborative and Survived & Punished. Mariame serves on the advisory boards of the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, Critical Resistance and the Chicago Community Bond Fund.
Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Nation Magazine, The Guardian, The Washington Post, In These Times, Teen Vogue, The New Inquiry and more. She co-authored the guidebook Lifting As They Climbed and published a children's book titled Missing Daddy about the impacts of incarceration on children and families.