Perceptions, Policing and Impact
- Balto, Simon. Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power. United States: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
- bandele, asha., Davis, Angela., Cullors, Patrisse. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. United States: St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 2018.
- Butler, Paul. Chokehold: Policing Black Men. United States: New Press, (n.d.).
- Camp, Jordan T. and Christina Heatherton, eds. Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter. United Kingdom: Verso Books, 2016.
- Davis, Angela Y. Are Prisons Obsolete?. United States: Seven Stories Press, 2011.
- Dulaney, W. Marvin. Black Police in America. United States: Indiana University Press, 1996.
- Felker-Kantor, Max. Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD. United States: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
- Forman, James. Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2017.
- Kali Gross. Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910 (2006).
- Hagan, John, and Ruth D. Peterson. Crime and Inequality. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995.
- Hinton, Elizabeth Kai. 2021. America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s. New York: Liveright, 2021.
- Koher-Hausmann, Issa. Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing. Princeton, NJ, 2018.
- Lowery, Wesley. They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement. United States: Little, Brown, 2016.
- Manuel, Ian. My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption. United States: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2021.
- Morris, Monique W. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools. United Kingdom: New Press, 2016.
- Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric. United States: Graywolf Press, 2014.
- Ransby, Barbara. Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018.
- Ritchie, Andrea, J. Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2017.
- Roberts, Dorothy, E. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. New York: Vintage, 1997.
- Story, Brett. Prison Land: Mapping Carceral across Neoliberal America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Mass Incarceration and Resilience
- Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Tenth anniversary edition. New York, 2020.
- Barkow, Rachel Elise. Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021.
- Betts, Dwayne. A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison. United States: Penguin Publishing Group, 2009.
- Betts, Reginald Dwayne. Felon: Poems. United States: W. W. Norton, 2019.
- Johnson, Paula. Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
- Jones, Tayari. An American Marriage: A Novel. United States: Algonquin Books, 2018.
- Hinton, Elizabeth. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. United Kingdom: Harvard University Press, 2016.
- Lucas, Ashley E. Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, (n.d.).
- Miller, Reuben Jonathan. Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration. New York, 2021.
- Schoenfeld, Heather. Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Sered, Danielle. Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Road to Repair. New York, 2021.
- Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015.
- Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel. United States: Scribner, 2017.
- Western, Bruce. Punishment and Inequality in America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006.
- Whitehead, Colson. The Nickel Boys: A Novel. United States: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2019.
Law and Justice
- Berry, Mary Frances. Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America. United States: Penguin Publishing Group, 1995.
- Blackmon, Douglass. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. New York: Doubleday, 2008.
- Brown-Marshall, Gloria. She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power. New York, 2020.
- Dyer, Joel. The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000.
- Herivel, Tara and Paul Wright. Eds. Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America’s Poor. New York: Routledge, 2003.
- Natapoff, Alexandra. Punishment without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal. New York, 2018.
- Ogletree, Charles and Austin Sarat, eds. When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice. New York: New York University Press, 2009.
- Perkinson, Robert. Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire. New York: Picador, 2009.
- Purnell, Derecka. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom. United States: Astra Publishing House, 2021.
- Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: The Forgotten Story of How Our Government Segregated America. New York, 2018.
- Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. United States: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
- Washington, Harriet A. Medical Apartheid : The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. United Kingdom: Doubleday, 2006.
- Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. United States: Random House, 2020.
- Zelden, Charles L. The Battle for the Black Ballot: Smith V. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All-white Primary. United Kingdom: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
Local, National and Global
- Abrams, Stacey. Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change. United States: Henry Holt and Company, 2018.
- Abrams, Stacey. Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America. United States: Henry Holt and Company, 2020.
- Berger, Dan. Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era. United States: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
- Clarke, Kamari Maxine and Deborah A. Thomas, eds. Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.
- Jett, Brandon. Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South: African Americans and Law Enforcement in Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, 1920-1945. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021.
- Garza, Alicia. The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart. United States: Random House Publishing Group, 2020.
- Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Berkeley: University of California, Press, 2007.
- Gray, Fred D. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The Real Story and Beyond. United States: NewSouth Books, 1998.
- Hernandez, Kelly L. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
- Onishi, Yuichiro. Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
- Sullivan, Patricia. Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement.New York: The New Press, 2009.
- Taylor, Clarence. Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City. New York: New York University Press, 2019.
- Wood, A. L. and N. J. Ring, eds. Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.
- Zangrando, Robert. The NAACP Crusade Against Lynching, 1918-1950. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1980.
Criminal Justice Advocacy in Action
- Abrams, Stacey. Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America. United States: Henry Holt and Company, 2020.
- Burton, Susan, Cari Lynn, and Michelle Alexander. Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women. New York, 2017.
- Carter, Dan T. Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South. Revised Edition, Baton Rouge, LA, 2007.
- Davis, Angela. The Autobiography of Angela Davis. New York: Random House, 1974.
- Davis, Fania. The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation. United States: Skyhorse Publishing, 2019.
- Durbin, Dick., Anderson, Carol. One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy. Austria: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
- Greenburg, Jack. Crusaders for the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 1994.
- Hill, Marc Lamont., Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility. United States: Haymarket Books, 2020.
- Howard, Walter T. ed., Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro: A Documentary History. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2007.
- Lebron, Christopher. The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Lewis, John. Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change. United States: Grand Central Publishing, 2012.
- Love, Bettina L.. We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. United States: Beacon Press, 2019.
- Ransby, Barbara. Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018.
- Reston, John. The Innocence of Joan Little: A Southern Mystery. New York Times Books, 1977.
- Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015.
- Stolarz, Brian. Grace and Justice on Death Row: The Race Against Time and Texas to Free an Innocent Man. Parker, CO: Skyhorse Publishing, 2016.
- Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. From #Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2016.
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