Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

by Derecka Purnell

Book Overview

One of the New York Times' 6 New Paperbacks to Read

Now in paperback and with new material, a 2021 Kirkus Best Book of the year in both Nonfiction and Current Events, the book Naomi Klein called: "a triumph of political imagination and a tremendous gift to all movements struggling towards liberation."

For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. Millions of people continue to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1662601662
• ISBN13: 9781662601668
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Astra House
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"