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Black Lives Matter

A guide to the #BLM movement, including resources for academic research

eBooks

New Framings on Anti-Racism and Resistance (V 1) by Ayan Abdulle (Volume Editor); Anne Obeyesekere (Editor)
Publication Date: 2017
Violence Against Black Bodies: An Intersectional Analysis of How Black Lives Continue to Matter by Sandra E. Weissinger (Editor); Dwayne A. Mack (Editor); Elwood Watson (Editor)
Publication Date: 2017
The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea by Christopher J. Lebron
Publication Date: 2017
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Publication Date: 2017
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by William C. Anderson; Mariame Kaba (Foreword by); Zoé Samudzi
Publication Date: 2018
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Publication Date: 2016
Policing the State, Second Edition: Democratic Reflections on Police Power Gone Awry, in Memory of Kathryn Johnston (1914–2006) by Louis A. Ruprecht
Publication Date: 2015
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States by Alicia Garza (Foreword by); Joe Macaré (Editor); Maya Schenwar (Editor); Alana Yu-Ian Price (Editor)
Publication Date: 2016
Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology by Pamela R. Lightsey
Publication Date: 2015
Inequality, Crime, and Health among African American Males: Enduring Social Costs of Racial Inequality by Darnell F. Hawkins (Editor); Marino A. Bruce (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018
Mourning in America: Race and the Politics of Loss by David W. McIvor
Publication Date: 2016

Print books

Stamped from the Beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: Black Cultural Center BCC E185.61 .K358 2016
Publication Date: 2016
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
Pushout: the criminalization of Black girls in schools by Monique W. Morris
Call Number: HSSE - 2nd floor LC2731 .M59 2016
Publication Date: 2016

Juvenile Collection

Black Lives Matter by Duchess Harris JD
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2017
Black Lives Matter by Sue Bradford Edwards
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2015

Additional eBooks

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Publication Date: 2014
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice--from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
Publication Date: 2014
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Publication Date: 2016
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor)
Publication Date: 2017
Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice by Paul Butler
Publication Date: 2010

Anti-Racism Resources

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo; Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2018
The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2020 Anniversary edition
Uprooting Racism: how white people can work for racial justice by Paul Kivel; Howard Zinn (Foreword by)
Call Number: Black Cultural Center BCC E184.A1 K477 2002
Publication Date: 2002

Last Updated: Jun 7, 2022 1:42 PM
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Subjects: General & Multi-Subject, Social Sciences

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