{"product_id":"beyond-abolition","title":"Beyond Abolition","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this pathbreaking work, Linette Eunjoo Park tackles a core crisis in modern thought: how to critique antiblack violence without inadvertently preserving the violence itself. Arguing that previous radical theories – from critiques of racial capitalism to discourses of abolition – have failed to capture the unique, foundational violence of antiblackness, Park develops a framework that challenges the very limits of what critical thought can achieve against the staggering evidence of antiblackness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book moves beyond conventional historical or legal analyses to examine how antiblack violence – specifically through the concept of the \"self-lynching\" – is produced and enforced by the very legal and symbolic systems designed to abolish it. Focusing on contemporary arrests made under the \"felony lynching\" penal code in California, the book unearths a genealogy that authorizes these charges. Through an innovative analysis of case studies – including the historical elision of anti-lynching activist Delilah Beasley, Melvin Edwards's sculptures, Torkwase Dyson's paintings, and the judicial spectacle of Clarence Thomas's hearing – \u003ci\u003eBeyond Abolition\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the ultimate failure of racial representation to contain or critique antiblackness. By tarrying with these aesthetic and juridical fragments, the book exposes a structural and psychical \"lynching\" of blackness that persists even, and especially, within our most celebrated critical frameworks. It proposes a methodological shift: the urgent need to move past the imagination of a \"real abolition\" and toward the confrontation with the un-settable, violent foundation of the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57504985416053,"sku":"9781503630543","price":96.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781503630543.jpg?v=1786953904","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/beyond-abolition","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}