Are prisons obsolete? The International Socialist Organization encourages anyone interested to join their meetings at 7 p.m. on Thursdays to discuss this and more, as they read a work from Angela Davis.
The group is hosting three separate dates of a reading group to discuss Angela Davis’s Are Prisons Obsolete? The group will be discussing chapters 1-2 on Oct. 4 at 7 p.m., chapters 3-4 on Oct. 18, and chapters 5-6 on Nov. 1. All meetings will be held in Bentley 205.
Davis is a political activist, academic, and author. Davis emerged as a prominent counterculture activist in the 1960s, working with the Communist Party USA until 1991. Davis’ research and works focus prominently on rights of African-Americans and feminism.
Are Prisons Obsolete? explores the transformation of slavery, convict leasing, and Jim Crowe into what the American prison system is today, and wonders if abolition of prison is truly the best option there is to rid the country of racial segregation at last.
If there any questions, contact Ellie Hamrick.
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