The Abolition Suite is a series of AirGo episodes exploring the concepts and practices of policing and prison abolition with the thought leaders who have been pushing an abolitionist future forward for decades. The Abolitionist Suite is presented in support of the #DefundCPD campaign and the Black Abolitionist Network.

This episode's guest is scholar, author, and historian Robin D.G. Kelley. A true digger and chronicler of Black liberation history, he explores the roots and routes of abolition, defines the concept of racial capitalism, and even takes off his historian hat briefly to imagine a liberatory future.

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Show Notes:

Angela Davis Lectures on Liberation: https://archive.org/details/AngelaDavis-LecturesOnLiberation

Slavery and Social Death by Orlando Patterson: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674986909

Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson: https://uncpress.org/book/9780807848296/black-marxism/

Black Reconstruction by Du Bois: https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/black-reconstruction-america/

Organization for Black Struggle in STL: https://www.obs-stl.org/

Jamala Rogers: http://jamalarogers.com/about/

Black Radical Congress Agenda: https://www.obs-stl.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Black-Radical-Congress-FREEDOM-AGENDA.pdf

M4BL Policy Statement: https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/

Critical Resistance: http://criticalresistance.org/

CLR James: https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/biograph.htm

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2785-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America by Manning Marable: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/736-how-capitalism-underdeveloped-black-america

Groundings with my Brothers by Walter Rodney: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2787-the-groundings-with-my-brothers

Jah Kingdom by Monique A. Bedasse: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469633596/jah-kingdom/

Gina Dent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Dent

Combahee River Collective: https://combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/the-combahee-river-collective-statement.html

Recorded 7/13/20

Music from this week's show:

Song 33 - Noname