If The New Jim Crow by showed you the architecture of American carceral power, Mariame Kaba's We Do This 'Til We Free Us hands you the blueprint to dismantle it.
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- Righteous fury meets actionable organizing strategies
- Historical dots connect—slavery to policing today
- Raw honesty, zero superficial reform platitudes
- Transformative justice framework you can use
If The New Jim Crow shattered your illusions about mass incarceration as accident rather than architecture, Mariame Kaba's We Do This 'Til We Free Us will teach you how to dismantle what Alexander exposed. This is not reform theater—Kaba channels the same righteous fury into abolitionist organizing, connecting historical dots from slavery to surveillance with scholarly rigor and urgent, uncompromising clarity. Every essay pulses with the intellectual precision and raw honesty that made Alexander's work essential, but Kaba goes further: she hands you the tools.
Where Alexander indicted the system, Kaba builds the blueprint for tearing it down. This is transformative justice as both critique and practice, refusing platitudes and demanding we imagine freedom beyond cages.
This is not reform theater—Kaba demands we imagine freedom beyond cages.
What Readers Are Saying
"this book is so good!! Lots of super thought-provoking nuggets...hope is a discipline!!" — Sasha, Goodreads
"Kaba's work is invaluable and she is setting the ground for a better world...her pieces about her own organizing work are incredibly insightful and will certainly be instructive for abolitionists." — Nicole Froio, Goodreads
"Just incredible. The section about transformative justice in particular is incredible..." — Ai Miller, Goodreads
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