Black Lives Movement: Books and Novels
Books
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Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press, 2010)
- Andrews, George Reid. Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000. OUP USA, 2004
- Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. Vintage International, 1963.
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Beth Richie, Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation (New York University Press, 2012)
- Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story. Knopft Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992
- Bryant, Howard. The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism. Beacon Press, 2018.
- Camp, Jordan T. and Christina Heatherton. Policing the Planet: Why Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter. Verso, 2016.
- Carruthers, Charlene. Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements. Beacon Press, 2018
- Cherrie Morgan and Gloria Anzaldua. This Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1983
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Childs, Dennis. Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary. Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2015.
- Chin, Staceyann. The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir. Scribner, 2009
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Clark, John Henrik. Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism. Eworld Inc, 2011.
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. One World Publishing, 2017.
- Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Taylor & Francis, 1990
- Crow Dog, Mary. Lakota Woman. Grove Atlantic, 1990
- Daisy Jernandez, Bushra Rehman, and Cherrie Moraga. Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. Basic Books, 2002
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Davis, Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (Seven Stories Press, 2003)
- Davis, Angela Y. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Haymarket Books, 2016.
- Davis, Angela. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. Women’s Press, 1974
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Delaney, Lucy A. From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom (1891, available online through UNC “Documenting the American South)
- DiAngelo, Robin J. White Fragility: Why It’s so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism. Beacon Press, 2018
- Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Ink, 2018).
- Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Richard Philcox, Grove Atlantic, 2007
- Frankenberg, Ruth. White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness. University of Minnesota Press, 1993
- Fulton, Sybrina and Tracy Martin. Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin. Spiegel & Grau, 2017.
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Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press, 2007)
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Hadden, Sally. Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (Harvard University Press, 2001).
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Haley, Sarah. No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (University of North Carolina Press, 2016).
- Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. Oxford University Press, 2010
- Hartman, Saidya. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Norton, 2020)
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Hinton, Elizabeth. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Harvard University Press, 2017).
- Hooks, Bell. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Pluto Press, 1984
- Hooks, Bell. Killing Rage: Ending Racism. Henry Hold and Company, 1996
- Hooks, Bell. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love. Atria Books, 2004
- Hoston, William T. Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston. Peter Lang, 2018
- Hull, Gloria T. All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us are Brave: Black Women’s Studies. Feminist Press, 1982
- Jackson, Iman. Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Anti-Black World. Zakiyyah Iman Jackson. NYU Press, 2020
- Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman. Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. NYU Press, 2020.
- Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants the Alchemy of Race. Harvard University Press, 1998
- Jimenez Roman, Miriam and Flores, Juan. The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. Duke University Press, 2009
- Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. (New York: Nation Books, 2016).
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Khan-Cullors, Patrisse and Bandele, Asha. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (St. Martin’s Press, 2018).
- Kidada Williams, They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I (NYU Press, 2012).
- Lebron, Christopher J. The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea. Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Lorde, Audre. Zami: a New Spelling of My Name. Crossing Press, 1982
- Magee, Rhonda V. The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities. TarcherPerigee, 2019.
- Malo, Pelo. Directed by Mariana Rondón, performances by Samuel Lange Zambrano, Samantha Castillo, and Beto Benites, Global Lens, 2013
- Mbembe, Achille. Necropolitics. Translated by Steve Corcoran, Duke University Press, 2019
- Mogul, Joey L. and Ritchie, Andrea J. Queer (In) Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. Beacon Press, 2011
- Moore, Darnell L. No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. PublicAffairs, 2018
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Muhammed, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (Harvard University Press, 2nd ed., 2019).
- Nkrumah, Kwame. Neocolonialism: The Last State of Imperialism. Panaf, 1974
- Painter, Nell Irvin. The History of White People. W.W. Norton, 2010
- Perry, Imani. Breathe: A Letter to My Sons. Beacon Press, 2019.
- Perry, Imani. May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem (University of North Carolina Press, 2018).
- Powell, Kevin. The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey Into Manhood. Atria Books, 2015
- Rodney, Walter. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Verso, 2018
- Sapphire. American Dreams. Vintage Books, 1996
- Shakur, Assata. Assata. L Hill Publisher, 2001
- Shange, Savannah. Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Anti-Blackness and Schooling in San Francisco. Duke University Press, 2019
- Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Duke University Press. 2016
- Smith, Barbara, ed. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. New York: Kitchen Table- Women of Color Press, 1983.
- Smith, Barbara. Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom: The Truth that Never Hurts. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
- Snorton, C. Riley. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity. University of Minnesota Press, 2017
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Stanley, Eric A. and Smith, Nat. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition (AK Press, 2015)
- Sudbury, Julia (ed.). Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex (Routledge, 2005)
- Taylor, Keenga-Yamahtta. From #BLACKLIVESMATTER To Black Liberation. Haymarket Books, 2016.
- Vitale, Alex S. The End of Policing. Verso Books, 2017
- Watkins, D. The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America. Hot Books, 2015.
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Wells-Barnett, Ida B. On Lynchings (1892; Dover Publications, 2014 reprint)
- West, Cornel. Race Matters. Beacon Press, 1993
- Wilderson III, Frank B. Afropessimism. Liveright Publishing, 2020.
- Wise, Tim. White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son. ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited, 2004
- X, Malcolm. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Random House Publishing Group, 1965
Novels
- Stone, Nic. Dear Martin. Crown Books, 2017.
- Thomas, Angie. The Hate U Give. Balzer & Bray (HarperCollins Publishers), 2017.