Social Justice – Articles – ASALH – The Founders of Black History Month

Gross, Kali N., and Cheryl D. Hicks. “Introduction—Gendering the Carceral State: African American Women, History, and the Criminal Justice System.” The Journal of African American History 100, no. 3 (2015): 357-65. https://doi.org/10.5323/jafriamerhist.100.3.0357
Hinton, Elizabeth Hinton and DeAnza Cook, “The Mass Criminalization of Black Americans: A Historical Overview,” Annual Review of Criminology 4, no. 1 (2021): 261-286. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-criminol-060520-033306
Murch, Donna. “Crack in Los Angeles: Crisis, Militarization, and Black Response to the Late Twentieth-Century War on Drugs,” Journal of American History 102, no. 1 (2015): 162–173. https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav260
Taylor, Clarence. “Introduction: African Americans, Police Brutality, and the U.S. Criminal Justice System: Historical Perspectives,” Journal of African American History 98, no. 2 (2013): 200-205. https://doi.org/10.5323/jafriamerhist.98.2.0200
Western, Bruce, and Christopher Wildeman.“The Black Family and Mass Incarceration.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 621, no. 1 (2009): 221–242. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716208324850

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “The Black Family in Age of Mass Incarceration.” Atlantic Monthly, October 2015.
Harris, LaShawn. “New Perspectives on Criminal (In)Justice and Incarceration.” Journal of African American History 100, no. 3 (2015): 448-460.

Balto, Simon Ezra. “’Occupied Territory’: Police Repression and Black Resistance in Postwar Milwaukee, 1950–1968.” Journal of African American History 98 (Spring 2013): 229-52.
Johnson, Karl E. “Police-Black Community Relations in Postwar Philadelphia: Race and Criminalization in Urban Social Spaces.” Journal of African American History 89, no. 2 (2004): 118-134.

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Berry, Mary Frances, “The Matt Ingram Case and the Denial of African American Sexual Freedom,” Journal of African American History 93, no. 2 (2008): 234-258.
McNeil, Genna Rae. “The Body, Sexuality, and Self-Defense in State v. Joan Little, 1974-1975,” Journal of African American History 93, no. 2 (2008): 235-261.
McNeil, Genna Rae. “African American Women, Social Activism, and the Criminal Justice System.” Journal of African American History 96, no. 3 (2011): 370-383. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.5323/jafriamerhist.96.3.0370