Reading lIST

The following are suggested texts for learning about the growth of police surveillance technology industry and how we can combat it from an abolitionist lens.

This list is not exhaustive and if you have texts that you would like to contribute, please contact us. If you would like to start a study group, please contact us.

Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age by Brian Jefferson
Community Defense: Sarah T. Hamid on Abolishing Carceral Technologies
Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order by Stuart Hall
Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang
Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya U. Noble
Get the BRIC Out of Boston from the Muslim Justice League
Resisting Data Colonialism – A Practical Intervention by the Tierra Común Network
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne
Automating Banishment: The Surveillance and Policing of Looted Land by StopLAPDSpying
Pacifying the Homeland Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision by Brendan McQuade
Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
Access is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality by Roderic Crooks