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#BlackLivesMatter and Anti-Racism

Books, articles, films, statistics, and primary sources on the ongoing Movement for Black Lives

Community Organizations

Equal Justice Initiative: Banning Books in Prisons
Censorship of what prisoners can read, that includes texts that might be deemed as radical.
‘It’s the racial stuff’: Illinois prison banned, removed books on black history and empowerment from inmate education program
Other related organizations

Books

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
ISBN: 1583225811
Publication Date: 2003
Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South by Talitha L. LeFlouria
ISBN: 1469622483
Publication Date: 2015-04-27
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
ISBN: 9780674035973
Publication Date: 2010
Discipline and Punishment: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault; Alan Sheridan (Translator)
ISBN: 0394499425
Publication Date: 1978-01-01
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
ISBN: 9780674737235
Publication Date: 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
ISBN: 9781595586438
Publication Date: 2012
Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader by Manning Marable (Editor); Keesha Middlemass (Editor); Ian Steinberg (Editor)
ISBN: 9781403977663
Publication Date: 2007

Films

Incarceration of Black Men (segment from Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise, 2016)
Moyers & Company: Incarceration Nation (2013)
Prison State (Films On Demand)
13^th (Netflix) Requires subscription
The House I Live In (Kanopy)

Articles

Baumgartner, Frank R, et al. “#BlackLivesDon'tMatter: Race-of-Victim Effects in US Executions, 1976-2013.” Politics, Groups, and Identities, vol. 3, no. 2, 2015, pp. 209–221.

Statistics

Drug Enforcement Agency
Budget and arrest statistics from the federal Drug Enforcement Agency
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Data on drug use, health, and treatment availability from the federal Department of Health & Human Services

Government Documents

The Federal Death Penalty: Recent Developments
Congressional Research Service Report, July 28, 2020

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