Colonized people, with a horrific historical connection to both science and medicine in this country, must examine science in service of the state.

The penal system remains a source of diseases that spread among prisoners at rates far exceeding those in the communities from which they came.

The necessary political demand is not  that we make better, more humane prisons and jails, but that we abolish prisons and jails altogether.

This is a book about the ideological construction of black women as “non-human” and exploitable for capitalist profit in the making of the New South.

What could possibly be a more effective way to seal borders, discourage protest, and position the United States into perfect alignment for WWIII?