Week 9: Abolition and Abolitionist Anthropology

Monday, October 25: Abolition

For today, prepare:

First check-in of Portfolio is due today.
Read (28 pages):
Kaba, Mariame. 2021. We Do This ’til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice. Chicago: Haymarket Books.
- Part VI: Accountability Is Not Punishment: Transforming How We Deal with Harm and Violence
  - Transforming Punishment: What Is Accountability without Punishment?
  - The Practices We Need: #MeToo and Transformative Justice
  - Moving Past Punishment
  - Justice: A Short Story
Listen (96 min):
Zora’s Daughters. 2021. “Abolition Is Not a Metaphor.” Podcast https://zorasdaughters.com/episodes/abolition-is-not-a-metaphor/
Watch (100 min):
DuVernay, Ava (dir.). 2016. 13^th https://www.netflix.com/watch/80091741

Wednesday, October 27: Abolitionist Anthropology

For today, prepare:

Read (21 pages + 21 pages):
Shange, Savannah. 2019. Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, + Schooling in San Francisco. Durham: Duke University Press.
- Chapter 1: #OurLivesMatter: Mapping an Abolitionist Anthropology
- Chapter 2: “A Long History of Seeing”: Historicizing the Progressive Dystopia (might replace this chapter with another from the book)

Supplemental Resources:

Conversation with Savannah Shange on Instagram by Transforming Anthropology: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEpV3mgppgh/
Jobson, Ryan Cecil. 2020. “The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn: Sociocultural Anthropology in 2019.” American Anthropologist, June, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13398.
“The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn? Race, Racism and Its Reckoning in American Anthropology” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScNbIWCRR4I
“Commentaries on The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn” https://www.americananthropologist.org/commentaries
Sojoyner, Damien M. 2017. “Another Life Is Possible: Black Fugitivity and Enclosed Places.” Cultural Anthropology32 (4): 514–36. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.4.04.