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11 Frank P. Barajas, “An Invading Army: A Civil Gang Injunction in a Southern California Chicana/O Community,” Latino Studies 5, no. 4 (December 1, 2007): 393–417, https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.lst.8600280.
12 Monte Francis, “Oakland Approves Bratton after 9-Hour Meeting,” NBC Bay Area, January 23, 2013, www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/oakland-approves-bratton-after-9-hour-meeting/1950399/.
13 “We Won! A Full Victory against Gang Injunctions!” Stop the Injunctions in Oakland, February 10, 2017, https://stoptheinjunction.wordpress.com/2017/02/10/we-won-a-full-victory-against-gang-injunctions/.
14 Randal C. Archibold, “Immigrants Take to U.S. Streets in Show of Strength,” New York Times, May 2, 2006, www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/us/02immig.html.
15 Mariame Kaba and Eva Nagao, “What about the Rapists?,” Abolitionist FAQ Series, Interrupting Criminalization, 2021, www.interruptingcriminalization.com/what-about-the-rapists.
16 T. K. Logan and Roberta Valente, “Who Will Help Me? Domestic Violence Survivors Speak Out about Law Enforcement Responses,” National Domestic Violence Hotline, January 28, 2021, https://www.thehotline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2015/09/NDVH-2015-Law-Enforcement-Survey-Report.pdf.
17 Jon Ortiz, “Prison Officers’ Union PAC Collects $8.2 Million from Members,” Sacramento Bee, February 3, 2016, www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/articlc58e05273.html.
18 Gabriel Petek, “The 2023–24 Budget: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,” Legislative Analyst’s Office, State of California, February 2023.
19 Yvonne Yen Liu, “Prison Strike’s Financial Impact in California,” Solidarity Research Center, October 2016, http://solidarityresearch.org/project/prison-strikes-financial-impact-california/.
20 “Prison Labor in California State Prisons,” Investigate: A Project of the American Friends Service Committee, n.d., https://investigate.afsc.org/prison-labor-california-state-prisons.
21 Matthew Mitchell, “California Occupational Licensing: Barriers to Opportunity in the Golden State,” Mercatus Center, August 13, 2019, www.mercatus.org/research/state-testimonies/california-occupational-licensing-barriers-opportunity-golden-state.
22 Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (Seven Stories, 2011), 12.
23 Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?, 50.
24 Norris, Defund Fear, 3.
25 Petek, “2023–24 Budget.”
26 Petek.
27 Nigel Duara, “Gavin Newsom Moved to Close 4 California Prisons. How Many More Can He Shut?” CalMatters, February 22, 2023, https://calmatters.org/justice/2023/02/how-many-prisons-does-california-need/.
28 Hailey Branson-Potts, “A Rural California Town Sued to Keep a Prison Open. Judge Rules Newsom Can Close It,” Los Angeles Times, September 13, 2022, www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-09/la-me-rural-california-prison-closure-lawsuit.
29 “Planned Closure of Chuckawalla Valley State Prison,” California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, press release, December 6, 2022, www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2022/12/06/california-department-of-corrections-and-rehabilitation-announces-the-planned-closure-of-chuckawalla-valley-state-prison/.
30 “Prison Closure Roadmap,” Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), February 2023, https://curbprisonspending.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FILE_7463.pdf.
31 Kaba, ‘Til We Free Us, 62.
Chapter 5: Reimagining Capitalism: Greenwood
1 A. R. Shaw, “Raphael Warnock Joins D-Nice, Killer Mike For ‘Shop Talk’ ahead of Election Day,” Atlanta Daily World, December 7, 2022, https://atlantadailyworld.com/2022/12/06/raphael-warnock-joins-d-nice-killer-mike-for-shop-talk-ahead-of-election-day/.
2 Matt Walljasper, “The Rebirth of Bankhead Seafood,” Atlanta Magazine, September 19, 2022, www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/the-rebirth-of-bankhead-seafood/.
3 Donovan X. Ramsey and Christian Cody, “The Political Education of Killer Mike,” GQ, July 8, 2020, www.gq.com/story/killer-mike-the-atlanta-way.
4 “Killer Mike’s Economic Solution for the Black Community,” MTV, July 8, 2016, www.mtv.com/movie-and-tv-awards/video-clips/41huod/killer-mike-s-economic-solution-for-the-black-community.
5 Haisten Willis, “Nearly 100 Years Old, Black-Owned Citizens Trust Bank Champions Homeownership, Development,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 18, 2020, www.ajc.com/business/committed-the-community/vxca8AuhxALRadmZJ5UyfN/.
6 Marielle Segarra, “The Bank Black Movement Gains Traction,” Marketplace, April 29, 2019, www.marketplace.org/2017/04/20/bank-black-movement-gains-traction/.
7 Segarra, “Bank Black Movement.”
8 “Consider This: Bounce TV,” WMBF News, September 27, 2011, www.wmbfnews.com/story/15557538/consider-this-bounce-tv/.
9 Rothstein, Color of Law, 185.
10 “About Us,” Greenwood, n.d., https://gogreenwood.com/about/.
11 “Fintech Startup Greenwood Raises $40 Million in Funding to Provide Black and Latino Banking Services,” press release, Greenwood, March 25, 2021, https://gogreenwood.com/press-release/fintech-startup-greenwood-raises-40-million-in-funding-to-provide-black-and-latino-banking-services/.
12 “Greenwood Studios,” Greenwood, n.d., https://gogreenwood.com/greenwood-studio/.
13 “Angela Davis: We Can’t Eradicate Racism without Eradicating Racial Capitalism,” Democracy Now!, June 14, 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhh3CMkngkY.
14 Maggie Anderson, Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest to Buy Black in America’s Racially Divided Economy, Public Affairs, 2012; “Circulation of Dollars in Black Communities,” Black Star Project, October 8, 2022, www.blackstarproject.org/index.php/advocacy-organizing/circulate-black-dollars-in-black-community.html.
15 “Greenwood District,” Oklahoma Historical Society, n.d., www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=GR024.
16 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail (HarperCollins, 1994).
17 “Atlanta Olympics: By the Numbers,” Sports Business Journal, July 18, 2016, www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2016/07/18/Olympics/Atlanta-by-the-numbers.aspx.
18 “College Enrollment Rates,” National Center for Education Statistics, updated May 2023, https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cpb/college-enrollment-rate.
19 “Greenwood, Inc. Acquires Valence to Provide Professional Development and Job Recruiting for the Black Community,” press release, Greenwood, June 22, 2022, https://gogreenwood.com/press-release/valence/.
20 “Greenwood and Travis Hunter Sign NIL Deal and Partner to Launch the ‘Choose Black’ Campaign,” press release, Greenwood, June 27, 2027, https://gogreenwood.com/travishunter/.
21 Sophie Caraan, “Killer Mike Reintroduces Himself in ‘MICHAEL,’” Hypebeast, June 16, 2023, https://hypebeast.com/2023/6/killer-mike-michael-album-stream.
22 United Press International, “Young Easily Wins Again in Atlanta,” Chicago Tribune, August 9, 2021, www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-10-10-8503090318-story.html.
23 Rothstein, Color of Law, 46.
24 Zachary Hansen, “How Many Fortune 500 Companies Does Atlanta Have?” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 16, 2023.
25 Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Anjali Singhvi, Audra D. S. Burch, Troy Griggs, Mika Gröndahl, Lingdong Huang, Tim Wallace, Jeremy White, and Josh Williams, “What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed,” New York Times, November 15, 2021, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/24/us/tulsa-race-massacre.html.
Chapter 6: Reimagining Infrastructure: The Autonomous Infrastructure Mission (AIM)
1 Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, xi.
2 Molly Crabapple and Michael K. Williams, “The Zo, Videos about Prison Life,” Marshall Project, February 27, 2020, www.themarshallproject.org/2020/02/27/welcome-to-the-zo.
3 “Heshima Speaks about the Amend the 13th Movement,” Amend the 13th, August 19, 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByWc8GerU1U.
4 Hồ Chí Minh, On Revolution. Selected Writings, 1920–1966, 1968.
5 Heshima Denham, “On the Correlation between the Autonomous Infrastructure Mission and George Jackson’s ‘On Withdrawal,’” January 2023.
6 Benjamin Wallace-Wells, “The Plot from Solitary,” New York Magazine, April 11, 2019, https://nymag.com/news/features/solitary-secure-housing-units-2014-2/.
7 Gabrielle Canon, “Ending Inmate Isolation: Inside the Battle to Stop Solitary Confinement in America,” Medium, June 21, 2016, https://medium.com/@gabriellecanon/ending-solitary-confinement-bb4c03e011e058.
8 Wallace-Wells, “Plot from Solitary.”
9 “United States: Prolonged Solitary Confinement Amounts to Psychological Torture, Says UN Expert,” UN Human Rights Council, Special Procedures, press release, February 28, 2020.
10 Wallace-Wells, “Plot from Solitary.”
11 Ashker v. Governor of California, 09-cv-05796 CW.
12 “What Is the Foster Care-to-Prison Pipeline?,” Juvenile Law Center, May 26, 2018, https://jlc.org/news/what-foster-care-prison-pipeline.
13 Rothstein, Color of Law, 96.
14 Rothstein, 95–96.
15 Mackenzi Huyser and Judi Ravenhorst Meerman, “Resident Perceptions of Redevelopment and Gentrification in the Heartside Neighborhood: Lessons for the Social Work Profession,” Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare 41, no. 3 (2014), https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol41/iss3/2/.
16 “Baxter Demographics and Statistics,” Niche, n.d., https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/n/baxter-grand-rapids-mi/residents/.
17 Megan Burks, Christine T. Nguyen, and Evan Frost, “Six Months in, the Call for Justice at 38th and Chicago Persists,” MPR News, December 3, 2020, https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/11/25/timeline-building-george-floyd-square.
18 Mao Zedong, On Contradiction, April 1937.
19 J. Heshima Denham, “A Day in the Life of an Imprisoned Revolutionary,” San Francisco Bay View, May 8, 2012.
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Beyond Freedom
1 “What Happened during Egypt’s January 25 Revolution?,” Al Jazeera, January 25, 2023, www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/25/what-happened-during-egypts-january-25-revolution.
2 “Ten Years Later: Reflections on Egypt’s 2011 Uprising,” Arab Center Washington DC, February 19, 2021, https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/ten-years-later-reflections-on-egypts-2011-uprising/.
3 Alexander, New Jim Crow, 223.
4 Ed Pilkington, “Fears of Renewed FBI Abuse of Power after Informant Infiltrated BLM Protests,” Guardian, February 14, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/14/fbi-abuse-of-power-alleged-informant-denver-blm-protests.
5 Angela Davis, “Living the Legacy: The 58th Commemoration of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz – Malcolm X,” Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabaaz Memorial & Education Center, February 21, 2023.
6 Jackson, Blood in My Eye, 86–87.
7 Angela Davis and Elizabeth Martínez, “Building Coalitions of People of Color,” interview by University of California, San Diego, panel discussion, May 12, 1993.
8 Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (South End, 1998).
9 “15 Facts about Latino Well-Being in CA,” Latino Policy & Politics Institute, October 26, 2022, https://latino.ucla.edu/research/15-facts-latinos-california/.
10 Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (Harper & Brothers, 1916), 247–48.
11 Rick Rouan, “Fact Check: Missing Context in Claim about Black Lives Matter CoFounder’s Property Purchases,” USA Today, April 26, 2021, www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/19/factcheck-misleading-claim-blm-co-founders-real-estate/7241450002/.
12 Elan Hope, “Rethinking Civic Engagement,” Brennan Center for Justice, February 16, 2022, www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/rethinking-civic-engagement.
13 Maiysha Kai, “Unapologetic: Activist and Author Charlene Carruthers Says Radical Movements Require Radical Honesty,” The Root, September 2, 2018, www.theroot.com/unapologetic-activist-and-author-charlene-carruthers-s-1828670627.
14 “CEO, ASJ; National Director, TimeDone,” Alliance for Safety and Justice, June 14, 2022, https://allianceforsafetyandjustice.org/staff/ceo/.
15 Alliance for Safety and Justice, Crime Survivors Speak, 2022, https://allianceforsafetyandjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Alliancefor-Safetyand-Justice-Crime-Survivors-Speak-September-2022.pdf.
16 Jay Jordan, “Life after Incarceration,” The Problem with Jon Stewart, May 24, 2023.
Glossary
1 Jacob Rosenberg, “‘Love It or Leave It’ Has a Racist History. A Lot of America’s Language Does,” Mother Jones, July 20, 2019, www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/love-it-or-leave-it-has-a-racist-history-a-lot-of-americas-language-does/.
2 Elisabeth McLean, “What Are Ban the Box Laws?” Goodhire, August 28, 2020, www.goodhire.com/blog/ban-the-box/.
3 Combahee River Collective, “The Combahee River Collective: A Black Feminist Statement,” in Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism, ed. Zillah R. Eisenstein (Monthly Review Press, 1978), 362–72.
4 Emma Anderson, “The Evolution of Electronic Monitoring Devices,” NPR, May 24, 2014.
5 “Global GPS Market and Its Applications,” Markets and Markets, 2023, www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/global-GPS-market-and-its-applications-142.html.
6 “Fast Facts: Historically Black Colleges and Universities (667),” National Center for Education Statistics, n.d., https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=667.
7 “School-to-Prison Pipeline,” American Civil Liberties Union, February 15, 2022.
8 Lisa Stolzenberg and Stewart J. D’Alessio, “‘Three Strikes and You’re Out’: The Impact of California’s New Mandatory Sentencing Law on Serious Crime Rates,” Crime & Delinquency 43, no. 4 (October 1, 1997): 457–69.
Index
Please note that index links to approximate location of each term.
A
abolition
capitalism and, 86
as constructive practice, 75–77
by default, 74–75
definition of, 5
as historical movement, 4–5
modern concept of, 4–5
object of, 20
accountability, 143
activism
components of, 81
current landscape for, 125
self-care and, 129–130
strategies for, 125–130
Adler, Stella, xvi
Agbebiyi, K, 134
agency, 40–45
Ahrens, Lois, xx
Alexander, Michelle, xxi, 14, 124, 145
Alliance for Safety and Justice, 135–136
All of Us or None, xvi, xxii–xxiii, xxviii–xxx, xxxiii, 3, 4, 64, 73, 102, 126, 128–129
ally, definition of, 143
Alter, Jonathan, 92
Amazon, 24
Amend the 13th, 102, 108, 109–110
American Civil Liberties Union, 35, 66, 151
Amuchie, Nnennaya, 134
Anderson, William, 44
Angola State Prison, xxxiii, xxxviii
Anthony, Susan B., xxxix
Anticipation, xix, xlii
Anti-Recidivism Coalition, 10
antisemitism, 127, 143
Aristotle, xxii
Armstrong, Greg, 38
art
incarcerated individuals and, xvi–xvii, xxv–xxvi
key elements of, xvii
power of, xv–xvi
Arts in Corrections, xvi
Aryan Brotherhood, 35, 106
Ashker, Todd, 106
Aspiration, 84
assimilation, xxxiii–xxxiv, 143–144
Atlanta
Black youth in, 89–90
Collier Heights, 87–88
HBCUs in, 90
Olympic Games, 93–94
protests in, 95
sports teams, 80
Autonomous Infrastructure Mission (AIM), 106–111, 114–121
Avenal State Prison, 60
B
Bacon, Nathaniel, 19
Bacon’s Rebellion, 19, 20, 140
bail, 8–9
Baldwin, James, xxxii
bandele, asha, 132
#BankBlack movement, 81, 82, 85, 88
Bankhead Seafood, 80
banking system, 82–85
Bank of America, 26, 82, 85
Ban the Box, 3, 135, 144
Berkeley, William, 19
BET News, 81
Biden, Joe, 137–138
Bigger Than Life, xxiii, 78
Birts, Ali, 1–4, 8, 74
Black Americans. See also racism; slavery
assimilation and, xxxiii–xxxiv
buying power of, 97–98
under correctional control, 5
disenfranchisement and, xxx, xxxv, xxxviii, 5, 136, 138
racial wealth gap and, 24–26, 83
violence against, 5, 140
Black Codes, xxxviii, 23
Black feminism, 144
Black Guerrilla Family, 105, 106
Black Liberation Army, 88
Black Lives Matter, 125, 131–132, 144
Black Panther Party, 45, 53, 88, 110, 111, 116, 121, 144–145
Black Skin, White Masks, xxxiii
Black Wall Street, 86–92, 97, 120
Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), 132–133
blockbusting, 112
Blood in My Eye, 19, 104
Bloody Sunday, 140
Bloomberg, Michael, 138
Booker, Cory, 138
Borgeson, Isa, 61–63, 70
Boudin, Chesa, 8–12, 64
Bounce TV, 83
Brashere, Adam, 108–110, 114
Bratton, Bill, 66
Braz, Rose, 57
brokenness, 45–50
Brown, Jerry, 43
Brown, Mike, 108
Budnick, Scott, 10
Buttigieg, Pete, 138
BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100), 132–133
C
California Arts in Corrections, xvi
California Correctional Center, 60, 63, 76–77
California Correctional Institution, 60
California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), 70, 71
California Institution for Men, 36
California Medical Facility, 60
California Men’s Colony, 60
