Tommie Shelby
Tommie Shelby is the Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (2016); and We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (2005).
Books by Tommie Shelby
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry (editors)
The Idea of Prison Abolition
by Tommie Shelby
The Idea of Prison Abolition is based on a series of lectures by Tommie Shelby, a professor of Philosophy and of African and African American Studies at Harvard. In a way, it's a response to the work of Angela Davis. Shelby is ultimately not on the side of prison abolition, but his exploration of the issue is well worth reading.
Interviews with Tommie Shelby
The best books on Prison Abolition, recommended by Tommie Shelby
With almost two million people in prison in the US on any given day, it’s clear that something is going badly wrong. The question is what to do about it. Harvard philosopher Tommie Shelby talks us through five books by thinkers of the past 150 years who have argued that abolishing prisons is the only solution.
