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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah. A Novel, c. 2013
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindedness, c. 2010
Allen, James, Hilton Als, Congressman John Lewis, Leon F. Litwack. Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, c. 2000
Without Sanctuary brings to life one of the darkest and sickest periods in American history … The photographs in this book make real the hideous crimes that were committed against humanity. –Congressman John Lewis
Banks, Russell. Cloudsplitter: A Novel, c. 1998
A triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America’s most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Cloudsplitter is dazzling in its re-creation of the political and social landscape of our history during the years before the Civil War, when slavery was tearing the country apart.
Baptist, Edward E. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, c. 2014
Barber II, The Rev. Dr. William J. with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear, c. 2016
Barkow, Rachel Elise. Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration, c. 2019
Bazelon, Emily. Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, c. 2019
Bazelon, Lara. Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction, c. 2018
Benjamin, Ruha. Race After Technology: Abolistionist Tools for the New Jim Code, c. 2019
Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, c. 2008
Boesak, Allan Aubrey & Curtiss Paul DeYoung. Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism, c. 2012
Buck, Elaine and Beverly Mills. If These Stones Could Talk: African American Presence in the Hopewell Valley, Sourland Mountain and Surrounding Regions of New Jersey, c. 2018
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me, c.2015
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, c. 1845
Eggers, Dave. What is the What: A Novel, c. 2006
Eggers, Dave. Zeitoun. The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina, c. 2009
Forman, Jr., James. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, c. 2017
Glaude, Jr., Eddie S. Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, c. 2020
Glaude, Jr., Eddie S. Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, c. 2016
Grisham, John. The Guardians: A Novel, c. 2019
Haley, Alex. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, c. 1964
Harding, Vincent. There is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America, c. 1981
Irving, Debby. Waking up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, c. 2014
Kendi, Ibram X., Stamped From the Beginning, c. 2016
Kimmel, Michael. Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era, c. 2013
King, Jr., The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther, “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” c. 1963
Lederach, John Paul. The Little Book of Conflict Transformation. Clear articulation of the guiding principles by a pioneer in the field, c. 2003
Magnani, Laura & Harmon L. Wray. Beyond Prisons: A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System, c. 2006
Noah, Trevor. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, c. 2016
Obama, Michelle. Becoming, c. 2018
Pfaff, John F. Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform, c. 2017
Sered, Danielle. Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and A Road to Repair, c. 2019
Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, c. 2014.
Styron, William. The Confessions of Nat Turner, c. 1966
Syphax, Tracey D. From the Block to the Boardroom. As told to Detric “Qadiriyyah” Goss
Taylor, Mark Lewis. The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, c. 2015
Thurman, Howard. Jesus and the Disinherited, c. 1976
Van Der Kolk, Bessel. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, c. 2014
Wallis, Jim. America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America, c. 2016
West, Cornel. Race Matters, c. 1993
Western, Bruce. Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison, c. 2018
Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad: A Novel, c. 2016
Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, c. 2010
Yaffe, Deborah. Other People’s Children: The Battle for Justice and Equality in New Jersey’s Schools, c. 2007
Zehr, Howard. Changing Lenses: Restorative Justice for Our Times, c. 1990
Zehr, Howard. The Little Book of Restorative Justice. A bestselling book by one of the founders of the movement, c. 2015
Video
Bill Moyers interview with Michelle Alexander
http://billmoyers.com/segment/michelle-alexander-locked-out-of-the-american-dream
Bryan Stevenson speaking at Harvard
http://iop.harvard.edu/forum/justice-era-mass-imprisonment
13th
A Netflix documentary referencing the 13th Amendment to the Constitution – excellent summary of mass incarceration issues. https://www.netflix.com/watch/80091741
College Behind Bars
2019 American television documentary series, directed by Lynn Novick, which originally aired on PBS. It focuses on the lives and academic careers of inmates in the Bard Prison Initiative. 4 episodes, available on Netflix, PBS Passport (for contributors to NPR) and Amazon.
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