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Alexander Weheliye
Barry Jenkins
Collier-Thomas, Bettye, and V.P. Franklin. Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement (2001)
Color of Change
CTCORE-Organize Now
Edwidge Danticat
Fleetwood, Nicole R. Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020)
James Forman, Jr.
James, Joy. Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in US Culture (1996)
Lisa Marie Cacho
Lopez, Ian Haney. White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race (2006)
Marc Lamont Hill
National Black Justice Coalition
Podcast 1
Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric (2014)
Snorton, C. Riley. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (2017)
The Grassroots Coalition
Thomas, Deborah A. Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (2011)
Aleshea Harris
Allen, Devin. "A Beautiful Ghetto" (2017)
Alves, Jaime Amparo. The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil (2018)
Amnesty International. On the Streets of America: Human Rights Abuses in Ferguson (2014)
Arthur Jafa
Basquiat, Jean-Michel. Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart)
Beyonce', Formation
Black Love Resists in the Rust
Black Organizing Project
Black Youth Project 100
Bouie, Jamelle. The Militarization of the Police" (2014)
Browne, Simone. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (2015)
Butler, Paul. Chokehold: Policing Black Men (2017)
Cacho, Lisa Marie. Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (2012)
Camp, Jordan, and Christina Heatherton, eds. Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (2016)
Canella, Gino. Racialized Surveillance: Activist Media and the Policing of Black Bodies (2018)
Carr, Gwen. This Stops Today: Eric Garners Mother Seeks Justice After Losing Her Son (2018)
Chatelain, Marcia. "Teaching the #FergusonSyllabus" (2014)
Christina Sharpe
Coates, Between the World and Me (2015)
Cobb, Jasmine. Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century (2015)
Cobbina, Jennifer E. Hands Up, Don't Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter; and How They Changed America (2019)
Crenshaw, Kimberl, Andrea J. Ritchie, Rachel Anspach, Rachel Gilmer, and Luke Harris. Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women (2016)
Danez Smith
Davis, Angela J. Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prsecution, and Imprisonment (2017)
Douglas, Kelly Brown. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God (2015)
Edwards, Frank, Hedwig, Lee, and Michael Esposito. Risk of Being Killed by Police Use of Force in the United State by Age, Race-Ethnicity, and Sex" (2019)
Epp, Charles R., Steven Maynard-Moody, Donald Haider-Markel. Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship (2014)
Ersula Ore
Hall, Stuart, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts. Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order (1978)
Hesse, Barnor, and Juliet Hooker, eds. After #Ferguson, After #Baltimore: The Challege of Black Death and Black Life for Black Political Thought (2017)
Hill, Marc Lamont. Nobody: Casualties of Americas War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond (2016)
Hughley, D. L. How Not to Get Shot, and Other Advice from White People (2019)
Jared Sexton
John, Simone. Testify (2017)
Kehinde Wiley
Kendrick Lamar
Khan-Cullors, Patrisse and Asha Bandele. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (2017)
Lamar, Kendrick. Alright
Lowery, Wesley. They Cant Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era of Americas Racial Justice Movement (2016)
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland, ed. "#FergusonSyllabus" (2014-2015)
Maynard, Robyn. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017)
Mccann, Bryan J. The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era (2017)
McKittrick, Katherine. Mathematics of Black Life.
McSpadden, Lezley. Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown" (2016)
Michelle Alexander
Mick Jenkins, "What Am I To Do" (2018)
Million Hoodies Movement for Justice
Monae, Janelle. Hell You Talmbout
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. The Condemonation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and Making of Modern Urban America (2011)
N.W.A. "Fuck tha Police" (1988)
Nikhil Pal Singh
Ore, Ersula J. They Call Me Dr. Ore (2014)
Orejuela, Fernando, and Stephanie Shonekan, Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection (2018)
PBS Frontline, Policing the Police
Presidents Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Final Report of the Presidents Task Force on 21st Century Policing (2015)
Prince, Baltimore
Ransby, Barbara. Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimaginging Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (2018)
Rios, Victor M. Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (2011)
Roberts, Frank Leon."#BlackLivesMatter Syllabus," or Black Lives Matter: Race, Resistance, and Populist Protest (2016)
Samuel Sinyangwe
Schrader, Stuart. Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (2019)
Sexton, Jared. Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing (2017)
Sexton, Jared. Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago (2015)
Shaun King
Simone Browne
Smith, Danez. Alternate Heaven for Black Boys
Alexander, M. Jacqui. "Not Just (Any) Body Can Be A Citizen: The Politics of Law, Sexuality, and Postcoloniality in trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas" (1994)
Anderson, Carol. One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (2018)
Bettye Collier-Thomas, V.P. Franklin, Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement (2001)
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Fulton, Sybrina. Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin (2018)
Hajnal, Zoltan, Nazita Lajevardi, and Lindsay Nielson. "Voter Identification Laws and the Suppression of Minority Votes" (2017)
Harris, Cherly I. "Whiteness as Property" (1993)
Houston Justice
Ifa Bayeza
Jamaicans For Justice
John R. Rickford
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Lpez, Ian Haney. Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class (2013)
Lpez, Ian Haney. White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race (2006)
Mark Bradford
Mary Frances Berry
Newkirk, Vann R. Voter Suppression is Warping Democracy(2018)
Riser, R. Volney. Defying Disenfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908 (2010)
Sexton, Jared. "The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism" (2011)
Spade, Dean. Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Tans Politics, & the Limits of the Law (2015)
Threadcraft, Shatema. Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic (2016)
Till-Mobley, Mamie and Christopher Benson. Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America (2003)
Weheliye, Alexander. Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (2014)
Weiner, Mark S. Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship (2008)
Agyepong, Tera Eva. The Criminalization of Balck Children: Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago's Juevenile Justice System, 1899-1945 (2018)
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2012)
Baldwin, James. If Beale Street Could Talk (1974)
Benjamnin, Ruha. Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imaginination in Everyday Life (2019)
Camp, Jordan T. Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (2016)
Corrigan, Lisa M. Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation (2016)
Davis, Angela J. Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003)
Davis, Angela J. Freedom in a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement(2016)
Democracy Now! Meet Crystal Mason, the Black Texas Mother Facing 5+ Years in Prison for Voting in the 2016 Election (2018)
Dillon, Stephen. Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State (2018)
DuVernay, Ava. 13th (2016)
DuVernay, Ava. When They See Us (2019)
Ella Baker Center
Fleetwood, Nicole R. Marking Tine: Arti nthe Age of Mass Incarceration (2020)
Forman, James Jr. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (2017)
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975)
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing Californina (2007)
Hernndez, Kelly Lytle. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 (2017)
Hernndez, Kelly Lytle. Migra! A History of the US Border Patrol (2010)
Hinton, Elizabeth. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (2017)
Hornblum, Allen M. Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison: A Story of Abuse and Exploitation in the Name of Medical Science (1998)
Jenkins, Barry. If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Jenkins, Barry. Moonlight (2016)
Joy James
Keith Calhoun & Chandra McCormick
Kilgore, James. Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time (2015)
LeFlouria, Talitha L. Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South (2015)
Lisa Corrigan
McCormick, Calhoun. "Slavery, The Prison Industrial Complex" (2015)
Mill, Meek. "Prisoners Deserve a New Set of Rights" (2018)
Peterson, James Braxton. Prison Industrial Complex for Beginners (2016)
Podcast 2
Shakur, Assata. Assata: An Autobiography (2001)
Smith, Anna Deavere. "Notes from the Field" (2018)
Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (2014)
Story, Brett. Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America (2019)
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016)
Thompson, Heather Ann. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (2016)
