Beyond Equity Reading List
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Ruben Gonzalez revised the Graduate School of Education’s “Beyond Equity” course in summer 2023 to focus more on abolitionist approaches to education in K-12 settings. He adapted the reading list, activities, and assignments to better align with an abolitionist approach.
Beyond Equity course reading list
| Text | What Students Read |
|---|---|
| Davis, A. Y. (2003). Are prisons obsolete?. Seven stories press. | Chapter 6: Abolitionist Alternatives |
| Davis, A. Y., Dent, G., Meiners, E. R., & Richie, B. E. (2022). Abolition. Feminism. Now. Haymarket Books. | Introduction (one section of class read the entire book and gave a book report--other sections had other texts on different topics). |
| Kaepernick, C. (2021). Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons. Kaepernick Publishing. | Forward, Introduction, & Students Selected Their Own Chapters to Read |
| Kelley, R. D. (2022). Freedom dreams: The black radical imagination. Beacon Press. | Introduction |
| Rodríguez, D. (2018). Abolition as praxis of human being: A foreword. Harvard Law Review, 132(6), 1575-1612. | Excerpts of Text |
| Schenwar, M., & Law, V. (2020). Prison by any other name: The harmful consequences of popular reforms. The New Press. | Chapter 6: Your School is Your Prison |
| Stovall, D. (2018). Are we ready for ‘school’ abolition?: Thoughts and practices of radical imaginary in education. Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 17(1), 6. | Excerpts of Text |
| The Educator for Liberation Network & Critical Resistance (2021). Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators. AK Press. | Introduction & Students Selected Their Own Chapters to Read |
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