The Radical Hood Library, located in Los Angeles, is committed to providing free revolutionary literature to people in their community and in prison.
, edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, are a few of the titles that fill the library's walls. One wall mostly filled with Lorenzo Kom’Boa Elvin’s bookfeatures a note that reads, “PRISON CHAPTER BOOKS. DO NOT TOUCH.”
In April 2021, Noname Book Club started to focus on sending books to people who are incarcerated. That wing of the book club is directed by Sage, but the chapters themselves form through a different process. “Book club chapters happened organically inside the prisons, not because we designed them, but because people were talking with each other," Natalie tells"People are natural organizers when they're put in a position where they have to really think about the injustices.
Part of that organizing has involved connecting members within jails and prisons to those participating from the outside. Explaining how the book club can help build those bridges, Fatimah says, “Once I started reading more about the prison industrial complex andas a framework, I really thought about the way that the state disappears people and how that can be disrupted a little bit, and I thought [the] book club was a perfect opportunity.
But not all of the books make it through the prison gates. Natalie and Fatimah share that they receive rejection letters for some of the books they try to send through, especially titles that hit too close to home, such as. “There's a lot of energy and thought and intentionality behind this, but prisons are not meant to be equitable, or sensical even,” Natalie says in frustration.
In addition to trying to get radical books inside prison walls, the book club has managed to spread radical knowledge to local communities simply by increasing the number of radical books in circulation. In an effort to get people to stop using Amazon , they’ve partnered with local libraries across the country by giving them a list of the books the club will be reading.
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