Rehearsals for Living

ISBN-13: 9781642596892

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Publication Date: 06-28-2022

Pages: 320

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Series: Abolitionist Papers #3

Robyn Maynard is an award-winning Black feminist scholar-activist based in Toronto, and the author of the national bestseller Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present. Her writings on policing, feminism, abolition, and Black liberation are taught widely across North America and Europe. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Leanne is the author of seven books, including her 2021 novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, which was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail, and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at CUNY Graduate Center. A co-founder of California Prison Moratorium Project and Critical Resistance, she is author of the prize-winning book Golden Gulag: Prison, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Gilmore is the recipient of the Cultural Freedom Prize from the Lannan Foundation. Robin D. G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA, is author of Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.

Table of Contents

Foreword Ruth Wilson Gilmore 1

Part 1 On Letter Writing, Commune, and the End of (This) World 5

Part 2 Making Freedom in Forgotten Places 55

Part 3 A Summer of Revolt 101

Part 4 One Hundred Forms of Homespace 149

Part 5 "We Are Peoples of the Lands, of More Lands Than Could Ever Be Counted" 201

Part 6 Rehearsals for Living /areyousurethatyoureallywanttobewell 235

An Afterwor(l)d Robin D.G. Kelley 265

Acknowledgments 275

Notes 278

Index 316