In this podcast, Gilmore outlines practical pathways—grounded in abolitionist geography—for dismantling carceral systems and reallocating resources toward community resilience and liberation — Listen on Apple Podcasts

Reveals how European colonialism and racial capitalism violently underdeveloped Africa through slavery, exploitation, and extraction for Western profit. From an abolitionist lens, the text exposes racial capitalism as a global carceral system and calls for dismantling these structures to build liberatory, self-determined futures — Free PDF

Definitive history of how 1960s “Great Society” programs were gradually eclipsed by investment in policing and prisons, especially in Black communities. Hinton uses federal archives to show a bipartisan consensus built mass incarceration under the guise of crime control, even as deindustrialization gutted cities. Illuminates how economic abandonment and criminalization went hand in hand. — Read on archive.org

Introduces the concept of racial capitalism—how capitalism has always been racialized through slavery, colonialism, and anti-Blackness.

Short film (16 minutes) from the Antipode Foundation featuring Ruth Wilson Gilmore, who powerfully maps how racial capitalism organizes space through dispossession, extraction, and carceral control. Through storytelling and political analysis, Gilmore shows how abolitionist struggle is also a fight over land, life, and liberation. — Youtube

A classic (short) text where Davis connects the rise of prisons to racial capitalism—how the legacy of slavery, segregation, and capitalist exploitation necessitated new forms of racial control. She invites readers to imagine abolition by learning from past struggles (e.g., the end of slavery seemed “unthinkable” until it happened). Offers concrete examples of prison alternatives globally and is written in accessible language, perfect for study groups. — Free Online