Practicing New Worlds - Abolition and Emergent Strategies

About the author

Andrea J. Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating, and agitating around policing and criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people for the past four decades. She is cofounder of Interrupting Criminalization and the In Our Names Network, a network of over 20 organizations working to end police violence against Black women, girls, trans and gender nonconforming people. In these capacities and through the Community Resource Hub, she works with dozens of groups across the country organizing to divest from policing and invest in strategies that will create safer communities. She is a nationally recognized researcher, policy analyst, and expert on policing and criminalization. Ritchie lives in Detroit, Michigan.

Product details

• Authors: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Andrea Ritchie, Andrea J Ritchie
• Publisher: AK PR DISTRIBUTION
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2024
• EAN: 9781849355117
• ISBN: 978-1-84935-511-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore