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How to Abolish Prisons
Lessons from the Movement
Rachel Herzing and Justine Piché
Foreword by Mariame Kaba

An insider’s guide to abolitionist strategy

and a love letter to the movement that made
this moment possible.

Critics of abolition sometimes castigate the

movement for its utopianism, but in How to
Abolish Prisons, longtime organizers Rachel
Herzing and Justin Piché reveal a movement that has made the struggle for
abolition as real as the institutions it is fighting against.
Herzing and Piché provide a collective reconstruction of what the grass-
roots movement to abolish prisons actually is, what initiatives it has launched,
how it organizes itself, and how its protagonists build the day-to-day practice of
politics. They draw on interviews with abolitionist crews all over North America,
from the Chicago Community Bail Fund to Critical Resistance in Oakland and
San Francisco to Bar None in Winnipeg. Through the words, deeds, and person-
alities of this beautifully peopled movement, How to Abolish Prisons emerges as a
stunning snapshot of a movement’s thinking in motion.

“How to Abolish Prisons is hope in action. It is right on time.”

—Mariame Kaba, from the foreword

RACHEL HERZING is an organizer, activist, and advocate, fighting the violence of

surveillance, policing, and imprisonment for over two decades. Herzing has
served as executive director of Center for Political Education, codirector of
Critical Resistance, and director of research and training at Creative Interven-
tions. She lives in New York City.
JUSTIN PICHÉ is an associate professor in the department of criminology and the
director of the Carceral Studies Research Collective at the University of Ottawa,
and he coedits the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons. He lives in Ottawa.

979-8-88890-083-3 ∙ April ∙ $18.95 ∙ Paperback ∙ 192 pages

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 Unbuild Walls
Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition
Silky Shah
Foreword by Amna A. Akbar

Drawing from over twenty years of activism on

local and national levels, this striking book offers
an organizer’s perspective on the intersections of
immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition.

In the wake of post-9/11 xenophobia, Obama’s

record-level deportations, Trump’s immigration
policies, and the 2020 uprisings for racial justice, the US remains entrenched in
a circular discourse regarding migrant justice. As organizer Silky Shah argues in
Unbuild Walls, we must move beyond building nicer cages or advocating for com-
prehensive immigration reform. Our only hope for creating a liberated society
for all, she insists, is abolition.
Unbuild Walls dives into US immigration policy and its relationship to
mass incarceration, from the last forty years up to the present, showing how the
prison-industrial complex and immigration enforcement are intertwined sys-
tems of repression. Incorporating historical and legal analyses, Shah’s personal
experience as an organizer, as well as stories of people, campaigns, organiza-
tions, and localities that have resisted detention and deportation, Shah assesses
the movement’s strategies, challenges, successes, and shortcomings. Featuring
a foreword by Amna A. Akbar, Unbuild Walls is an expansive and radical in-
tervention, bridging the gaps between movements for immigrant rights, racial
justice, and prison abolition.

“Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I am going to fulfill my proper function in
the social organism. I’m going to go unbuild walls.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

SILKY SHAH is an organizer who works to abolish immigration-related incarcer-

ation and has worked on issues surrounding racial and migrant justice for over
two decades. She serves as the executive director of Detention Watch Network.

979-8-88890-084-0 ∙ April ∙ $19.95 ∙ Paperback ∙ 256 pages

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Our History Is the Future
Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access
Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of
Indigenous Resistance
Nick Estes

Now in paperback with a new foreword by

the author, Our History Is the Future is at once
an award-winning account of one of the most
important struggles of the twenty-first century,
a gripping personal story, and a manifesto on
anticolonial struggle.
On the fifth anniversary of its original publi-
cation, this edition of Our History Is the Future
features a new essay about rising indigenous
campaigns to protect our environment from extractive industries and to shape
new ways of relating to one another and the world.
In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in
North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access
oil pipeline, grew to be one of the largest Indigenous protest movements of the
twenty-first century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous Water Protectors
and non-Native allies from around the world. Its slogan “Mni Wiconi” (Water
Is Life) was about more than just a pipeline. Water Protectors knew this battle
for Native sovereignty had already been fought many times before and that, even
with the encampment gone, their anticolonial struggle would continue.
In this award-winning book, Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resis-
tance leading to the present campaigns against fossil fuel pipelines, from the
days of the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars, the Pick-
Sloan dams, the American Indian Movement, and the campaign for Indigenous
rights at the United Nations.
“Nick Estes gives voice to the new wave of indigenous environmental mobilization.”
—Neha Shah, the Guardian

NICK ESTES, an enrolled member of the Lower Brulé Sioux Tribe, is an assistant
professor in American Indian studies at University of Minnesota. He studies co-
lonialism and global Indigenous histories, focusing on decolonization, oral history,
US imperialism, environmental justice, anticapitalism, and the Oceti Sakowin.

979-8-88890-082-6 ∙ April ∙ $20.95 ∙ Paperback ∙ 328 pages

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 Mastering the Universe
The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class,
What They Do with Their Money, and
Why You Should Hate Them Even More
Rob Larson

A witty, righteously angry, and clear-eyed

dissection of the lifestyles, moral bankruptcy,
and stupidly large sums of money hoarded by the
disgustingly wealthy.

The fact that we live in one of the most unequal

societies in the history of the world is becoming
common knowledge. But how much do we really know about the billionaires
who sit atop our global economic system? Who are they, really? How did they
accumulate their ill-gotten gains? And what kind of depraved methods do they
use to maintain their positions?
Turning their own weapons of class war against them, Larson crunches the
numbers so you don’t have to. But he doesn’t stop there, because appreciating
the sheer scale of the global wealth gap doesn’t even touch on all the ways the
ruling class are making us miserable, breaking our society to pieces, and destroy-
ing the planet in their pursuit of ever-increasing power and profit.
As we behold whole continents on fire, pandemics thrashing public health
systems to smithereens, and declining lifespans for the vast majority, Larson
argues that the only way forward is to yank on the emergency break and give
capitalism the boot.

ROB LARSON is a professor of economics at Tacoma Community College and

the author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley and Capitalism
vs. Freedom. He is the house economist at Current Affairs, and his writing has
appeared in Jacobin, In These Times, and Dollars & Sense. Larson lives in Tacoma,
Washington (because Jeff Bezos has made Seattle unliveably expensive).

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Set the Earth on Fire
The Great Anthracite Coal Strike of
1902 and the Birth of the Police
David Correia

An eye-opening account of the Great Anthracite

Coal Strike of 1902, showing how the strike—and
the violent backlash that ensued—reveal the
genesis of modern policing.

In the early years of the twentieth century, in

the coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania, nearly
150,000 miners took part in one of the most
critical events in the history of US labor organizing. The brutal response by
the state of Pennsylvania—as well as the federal government—inaugurated the
structure and power of policing that we know today.
In this gripping account of the Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902,
scholar and activist David Correia takes readers through the story of the United
Mine Workers of America, their struggle against systems of private policing—
which were present in practically every industry in the US—and the develop-
ment of public, professionalized, state-sanctioned, and state-serving police.

“David Correia has excavated a trove of forgotten or little-known history from the hard
coal of Pennsylvania, culminating in the question that remains with us today—just who
are the police meant to protect and serve? ”
—John Sayles

DAVID CORREIA is a professor of American studies at the University of New

Mexico. He is the author of An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight
for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents over Three Centuries and
Properties of Violence, coauthor with Tyler Wall of Police: A Field Guide, and co-
author with Nick Estes, Melanie Yazzie, and Jennifer Denetdale of Red Na-
tion Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation. He is a cofounder of
AbolishAPD, a research and mutual aid collective in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

979-8-88890-090-1 ∙ July ∙ $19.95 ∙ Paperback ∙ 288 pages

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 The Black
Antifascist Tradition
Fighting Back From
Anti-Lynching to Abolition
Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen

An urgent history of the fight against fascism

across the African diaspora, revealing that Black
antifascism has always been vital to global
freedom struggles.

From Paul Robeson to Ida B. Wells, from Clau-

dia Jones to Walter Rodney, from Angela Davis
to Frantz Fanon, Black radicals have long un-
derstood fascism as a threat to the survival of Black people around the world—
and to everyone. In The Black Antifascist Tradition, scholar-activists Jeanelle K.
Hope and Bill V. Mullen show how generations of Black activists and intellec-
tuals have stood within a tradition of Black antifascism.
In shining a light on fascism and anti-Blackness, Hope and Mullen argue,
the writers and organizers featured in this book have also developed urgent
tools and strategies for overcoming them.

“An absolutely needed chronicle showing how Black people lead antifascism.”
—Peter Linebaugh
“Gives us the materials we need to face an uncertain future.” —David Palumbo-Liu
“A careful history. . . . A celebration of the exquisite threads of antifascism woven
inextricably into the Black Radical Tradition.” —Micol Seigel

JEANELLE K. HOPE is the director and an associate professor of African American

studies at Prairie View A&M University. Her work has been published in sev-
eral academic journals and public outlets, including the American Studies Journal,
Amerasia Journal, Black Camera, and Essence. She lives in Houston, Texas.
BILL V. MULLEN is professor emeritus of American studies at Purdue. His books
include James Baldwin: Living in Fire, Un-American: W. E. B. Du Bois and the
Century of World Revolution, and Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli
Universities. He lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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Witness
An Insider’s Narrative of the Carceral State
Lyle C. May

A frank account of life under the sentence of death

and a scathing critique of the death penalty’s
wholly destructive nature.

In Witness, Lyle C. May offers a damning ac-

count of shifts in sentencing laws, prison pol-
icies that ensure recidivism, and classic “tough
on crime” views that don’t make society safer or
prevent crime. These insightful essays explore
capital punishment, life imprisonment, prison education, and prison journalism,
as well as what activism inside prisons looks like.
No outside journalist can adequately report what happens inside death row
or what it is like to live through thirty-three executions of people you know.
May’s grounded writings in Witness challenge the myths, misconceptions, and
misinformation about the criminal legal system and death in prison, guiding
readers on a journey through North Carolina’s congregate death row, where the
author has spent over twenty years of his life.
With a foreword by activist, lawyer, and professor Danielle Purifoy, and
drawing on the work of Angela Y. Davis, Mariame Kaba, and other abolitionist
scholars, Witness is a guidebook for abolitionism in practice.

LYLE C. MAY is an Ohio University alum, member of the Alpha Sigma Lambda
Honor Society, and member of the Authors Guild. His writing regularly ap-
pears in Scalawag magazine, and he guest lectures at universities, high schools,
and academic conferences around the United States. To sign up for May’s news-
letter or to contact him, visit www.LyleCMay.com.

978-1-64259-971-8 ∙ April ∙ $19.95 ∙ Paperback ∙ 300 pages

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 Solidarity Is the Political
Version of Love
Lessons from Jewish
Anti-Zionist Organizing
Rebecca Vilkomerson and Alissa Wise
Foreword by Omar Barghouti
Afterword by Stefanie Fox

What does the politics of solidarity look like in

practice, and how can left-wing organizations
grow—in numbers and power—while remaining
accountable to the broader movements of which
they are a part?

In fall 2023, with the attention of the world focused on Israel’s unprecedented
aggression against the people of Gaza, millions across the globe mobilized in
solidarity with Palestinians and their struggle for liberation. Jewish progressives
in the US played a highly visible role in denouncing Israel’s actions and US
complicity in them, leading mobilizations and disruptions from Grand Central
Station to the US Capitol.
In this book, two key leaders and former staff of Jewish Voice for Peace
( JVP), Rebecca Vilkomerson and Rabbi Alissa Wise, focus on the important
role of anti-Zionist Jewish organizing within the broader Palestine solidarity
movement, reflecting on their decade of leadership of JVP. In addressing their
shortcomings and failures no less than their inspiring successes, Vilkomerson
and Wise deliver an account of JVP’s organizing during the 2010s that offers
crucial strategic lessons for anyone engaging in the collective work of building
organizations and fighting for justice—especially those organizing from a po-
sition of solidarity.

REBECCA VILKOMERSON was the executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace from
2009 to 2019. She is currently the codirector of the Funding Freedom project.
RABBI ALISSA WISE is a West Philadelphia–based organizational consultant,
community organizer, educator, and ritual leader with over two decades of
movement-building experience.

979-8-88890-095-6 ∙ May ∙ $22.95 ∙ Paperback ∙ 336 pages

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Defund
Conversations toward Abolition
Calvin John Smiley

A collection of illuminating interviews with

leading abolitionist organizers and thinkers,
reflecting on the uprisings of summer 2020, the
rise of the defund movement, and the work of
bridging the divide between reform and abolition.

The 2020 uprisings against police violence

launched a national conversation about de-
funding the police and prisons, propelling the
defund movement into the spotlight. The backlash has been swift, beating back
efforts to reallocate public funds away from police and other punitive carceral
systems and into social welfare programs that provide care, stability, and com-
munity.
Through a series of illuminating conversations with academics, activists,
and system-impacted individuals, Calvin John Smiley makes clear that defund
was always more than a brief moment; it is part of an ongoing struggle against
white supremacy, capitalism, state-sanctioned police violence, and mass incar-
ceration.
Giving voice to those committed to abolitionist praxis, Defund is an es-
sential tool for organizers as we imagine how defund goes from a hashtag to a
movement to a reality.

FEATURING CONVERSATIONS WITH: Marisol LeBrón, Dan Berger, Zellie Imani,

Olayemi Olurin, Jonathan Ilan, Michael and Debbie Davis, and Jasson Perez.
CALVIN JOHN SMILEY is an associate professor of sociology at Hunter College–City
University of New York. Smiley is the author of Purgatory Citizenship and a co-
editor of Prisoner Reentry in the 21st Century, and his research has been featured
in the Washington Post, the Guardian, Toronto Star, and Le Monde. Outside of
writing, Smiley works with incarcerated youth and young men in New York
City, where he is based.

979-8-88890-096-3 ∙ May ∙ $17.95 ∙ Paperback ∙ 160 pages

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 Twilight Prisoners
The Rise of the Hindu Right
and the Fall of India
Siddhartha Deb

An incisive, lyrical, and deeply reported account of

India’s descent into authoritarianism.

Traveling across India, interviewing Hindu

zealots, armed insurgents, jailed dissidents, and
politicians and thinkers from across the polit-
ical spectrum, award-winning writer Siddhar-
tha Deb reveals a country in which forces old
and new have aligned to endanger democracy. The result is an absorbing—and
disturbing—portrait. India has become a religious fundamentalist dystopia, one
depicted here with a novelist’s precise language and eye for detail.
Prime minister Narendra Modi and his party—a formation explicitly
drawing on European fascism—have deftly exploited modern technologies, the
media, and market forces to launch a relentless campaign against minorities,
women, dissenters, and the poor. Deb profiles these people, as well as those
fighting back, including writers, scholars, and journalists. Twilight Prisoners
sounds the alarm now that the world’s largest democracy is under threat in
ways that echo the fissures in the United States, United Kingdom, and so-called
democracies the world over.

“One of the most distinctive writers to have emerged from South Asia in the last two
decades.” —Pankaj Mishra

SIDDHARTHA DEB’s fiction and nonfiction have been longlisted for the Interna-
tional Dublin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and has won
the PEN Open Book Award. His journalism and essays have appeared in the
New York Times, the Guardian, the New Republic, the Baffler, n+1, Dissent, and
the Caravan. He is the author, most recently, of The Light at the End of the World.
Born in Shillong, India, Deb lives in Harlem, New York.

979-8-88890-088-8 ∙ April ∙ $21.95 ∙ Paperback ∙ 230 pages

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Nazar Boy
Poems
Tarik Dobbs

From one of the most imaginative and radical

voices in contemporary poetry, a debut collection
of fierce tenderness, political acuity, and
powerful lyricism.

Tarik Dobbs’s work explores surveillance,

queerness, disability, race, and working-class
identity in post-9/11 America. As an Arab American writer, Dobbs is achingly
familiar with the power dynamics, violence, and capitalistic undercurrents wo-
ven through the language of the colonizer. They challenge this power in visual,
free-verse, and formally intense poems—both traditional and innovative—that
stretch the elasticity of borders, verbs, images, redactions, and more. Ranging
from sonnets to concrete poems, Nazar Boy is visually stimulating, thought-pro-
voking, emotionally wrenching, and exquisitely crafted.
Dobbs’ poems blur and collapse narrative distances within and between
places, from the Levant to Michigan, and break down dichotomies portrayed in
Western media: between Arabness and whiteness, intellectualism and the work-
ing poor, Muslimness and queerness, disability and desire. By turns irreverent
and serenely gentle, Dobbs calls us to speak, to dream, and to imagine beyond
those distances so that we might speak, dream, and imagine better versions of
ourselves, our relationships to each other, and our places in the world.

TARIK DOBBS is a writer, an artist, and a Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly and Doro-
thy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellow. Tarik’s poems appear in the Best New Poets
and Best of the Net anthologies, as well as AGNI, Guernica, and Poetry Magazine,
among other outlets. Tarik helps run poetry.onl and served as a guest editor at
Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab America as well as Zoeglossia: A
Community for Poets with Disabilities.

979-8-88890-089-5 ∙ June ∙ $17 ∙ Paperback ∙ 100 pages

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 A Map of My Want
Faylita Hicks

From the critically acclaimed author of HoodWitch,

Faylita Hicks’s second collection explores the
question, Where do our desires take us?

An offspring of Audre Lorde’s seminal essay

“Uses of the Erotic,” Hicks’s A Map of My Want
follows a nonbinary femme as they explore
where their polyamory and sexual freedom
can take them after their escape from a reli-
gious cult. In this volume you will find beaches,
threesomes, quantum mechanics, nature hikes, floods, and the long walk home
from jail. The book is an intimate erotic spell through which Hicks conjures joy
as they develop an alternate theory on how to attain happiness.

Praise for HoodWitch:

“HoodWitch is an incantatory, ecstatic collection brimming with heartbreak and triumph.

You cannot come away from this book unchanged. This resonant, capacious debut will
leave you staggering. Faylita Hicks is just getting started. The world better get ready. ”
—Laura Wetherington, author of A Map Predetermined and Chance

FAYLITA HICKS (she/they) is a queer, Afro-Latinx writer, spoken word artist, and
cultural strategist. Newly based in Chicago, Hicks is the author of the critically
acclaimed debut poetry collection HoodWitch, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda
Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry, the 2019 Julie Suk Award, and the 2019
Balcones Poetry Prize.

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To Washington
Park, with Love
Documenting a Summer of Black Joy
Rose Blouin
Foreword by Adrienne Brown and Eve L. Ewing

A collection of stunning black and white

photographs capturing the events, people, and
landscape of Chicago’s Washington Park during
the summer of 1987.

Located in Chicago’s South Side and designed by famed landscape architect

Frederick Law Olmsted, Washington Park takes its name from the first presi-
dent of the United States. But it has been claimed time and again by vibrant and
rebellious communities surrounding it. In 1987, Black Chicagoans filled Wash-
ington Park with joyous, eclectic festivities, depicted with beauty and vitality by
Chicagoan and photographer Rose Blouin.
These photographs brim with the delights of summer: a verdant natu-
ral world, food, fun, music, and family gatherings.They embody the diversity,
strength, and humanity of the people for whom Washington Park remains a
meeting place and a source of community, love, and joy.
To Washington Park, With Love includes forewords by Eve L. Ewing and
Adrienne Brown, contextualizing and celebrating the 140 black and white pho-
tographs from Blouin’s indispensable body of work.

ROSE BLOUIN is a self-taught photographer who has created documentary and

fine art photography since 1980. Her work has been exhibited in a number of
museums and galleries, including Woman Made Gallery, ARC Gallery, Nicole
Gallery, the South Side Community Art Center, Artemisia Gallery, Evanston
Arts Center, the State of Illinois Art Gallery, Bridgeport Art Center, and the
Chicago Cultural Center. Blouin is a founding member of Sapphire & Crystals,
a collective of African American women artists active since 1987. Her most
recent book is A Week in Havana. She lives in Chicago.

979-8-88890-129-8 ∙ July ∙ $40 ∙ Hardcover ∙ 140 pages

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 We the Gathered Heat
Asian American and Pacific Islander
Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word
Edited by Franny Choi, Bao Phi,
No’u Revilla, and Terisa Siagatonu

A beautiful anthology featuring some of the

brightest voices in contemporary American poetry
who challenge, expand, and illuminate the
meaning of the label “Asian American and Pacific
Islander” in today’s world.

In this thoughtfully curated, intergeneration-

al collection, poets of multiple languages, lands, and waters write against and
through the contested terrain of AAPI identity. Too often, Pacific Islanders and
Asian Americans are squeezed into the same story. The poets gathered here, and
the lineages they represent, exceed this sameness. May this anthology uplift
complexities and incite transformation and joy.
Contributors include Marilyn Chin, Joshua Nguyen, Teresia Teaiwa,
Haunani-Kay Trask, and many more writers, both established and emerging.

FRANNY CHOI is a poet and essayist. Their books include The World Keeps Ending,
and the World Goes On, Soft Science, and Floating, Brilliant, Gone.
BAO PHI has two collections of poems, Sông I Sing and Thousand Star Hotel, the
latter of which was named by NPR as one of the best books of 2017 and was cho-
sen as 2017’s best poetry book of the year by San Francisco State’s Poetry Center.
NO‘U REVILLA is an ʻŌiwi poet and educator and author of Ask the Brindled,
which won the 2021 National Poetry Series. She prioritizes aloha, gratitude,
and collaboration in her practice.
TERISA SIAGATONU is an award-winning, queer, Sāmoan poet, teaching artist, and
organizer born and rooted in the Bay Area. A Kundiman fellow, her work has
been published in Poetry Magazine and has been featured on Button Poetry, CNN,
NBC News, NPR, Huffington Post, KQED, the Guardian, and other venues.

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Beginning Again
Stories of Movement and
Migration in Appalachia
Edited by Katrina M. Powell
Foreword by Nikki Giovanni

First-person narratives of refugees, immigrants,

and generations-long residents in Appalachia,
highlighting how spaces of belonging, home, and
connection are created in the face of displacement,
extraction, and structural oppression.

Beginning Again collects the stories of twelve

individuals who themselves (or their families
before them) migrated and relocated to and
within Appalachia. Whether people have lived in the region for a short time
or for generations, journeys of resettlement in Appalachia are complex. While
displacement and resettlement are not new in the region, popular misunder-
standings often perpetuate stereotypes of refugees and immigrants as a drain on
resources—and rural Appalachians as monolithically poor, white, and backwards.
Within the dominant media, there is an expected Appalachian narrative and an
expected refugee or immigrant narrative. Beginning Again adds to the growing
body of works that counter damaging myths of Appalachia, illustrating that the
region and its people have always been impacted by movement and migration.
With a focus on shared resettlement experiences, Beginning Again presents
a nuanced portrait of life in contemporary Appalachia and asks how might we
ensure equity, both for people who have lived in Appalachia for generations and
for those newly arrived.

KATRINA M. POWELL is a professor of rhetoric and writing and founding director of

the Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies at Virginia Tech. Her
research focuses on displacement narratives. She is cofounder of the digital-born
oral history initiative VTStories.org, founding editor of the journal Roots and Re-
settlement, and codirector of Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia.
Poet NIKKI GIOVANNI was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Cincin-
nati, Ohio. Since 1987, she has been on the faculty of Virginia Tech, where she
is a now professor emeritus.
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 Abolition and Social Work
Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the
Practice of Community Care
Edited by Mimi E. Kim, Cameron Rasmussen,
and Durrell M. Washington
Foreword by Mariame Kaba

A critical anthology exploring the debates,

conundrums, and promising practices around
abolition and social work in academia and within
impacted communities.

Within social work—a profession that has been

intimately tied to and often complicit in the building and sustaining of the
carceral state—abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and radical praxis are
shifting the field. Critical scholarship and organizing have helped to name and
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