LibGuides: Black Lives Matter: The African American Experience: Policing, Incarceration, Disinvestment

Policing, Incarceration, Disinvestment (The Atlantic, 6/16/20)

Students in a classroom after the second day of a busing program to desegregate Boston, MA schools (Ed Jenner / The Boston Globe / Getty)

Policing, Incarceration, Disinvestment

Broken Windows
(George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson, 1982) The police and neighborhood safety

Modern analysis:

The Criminalization of Gentrifying Neighborhoods
(Abdallah Fayyad, 2017) Areas that are changing economically often draw more police—creating conditions for more surveillance and more potential misconduct.
How the War on Drugs Kept Black Men Out of College
(Tamara Gilkes Borr, 2019) A new study finds that federal drug policy didn’t just send more black men to jail—it also locked them out of higher education.
Race and the Schooling of Black Americans
(Claude M. Steele, 1992) More than half of black college students fail to complete their degree work—for reasons that have little to do with innate ability or environmental conditioning. The problem, a social psychologist argues, is that they are undervalued, in ways that are sometimes subtle and sometimes not
The Prison Industrial Complex
(Eric Schlosser, 1998) Correctional officials see danger in prison overcrowding. Others see opportunity. The nearly two million Americans behind bars—the majority of them nonviolent offenders—mean jobs for depressed regions and windfalls for profiteers
When They Get Out
(Sasha Abramsky, 1999) How prisons, established to fight crime, produce crime.

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From NetFlicks. Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.

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Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
Open Media Book. 2003
Being An Undocumented Black Immigrant In America Is A ‘Lonely Experience’
Think Progress
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Ta-Nehisi Coates. The Atlantic. Oct. 2015.
Criminal Justice
Stories from Frontline, KQED
Four Teens Spent 15 Months in Jail for a Pittsburgh Crime They Didn’t Commit
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 6 October 2019
Hate at School Report
Teaching Tolerance
History as a Weapon: Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation by Angela Davis
Marin County Jail, May, 1971
The Link Between Health and Racism
TED Playlist of talk on the subject (click more)
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How racism makes us sick
Racism has a cost for everyone
Why your doctor should care about social justice
The problem with race-based medicine
The trauma of systematic racism is killing Black women
How racism harms pregnant women
Why genetic research must be more diverse
The racial politics of time
Race and Ethnicity
Issue Lab. 475 reports
Racial and Ethnics Residential Segregation in the United States: 1980-2000
U.S. Census
Stopped by Police
ACLU Know Your Rights