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Mass Incarceration

Black Alliance for Just Immigration

Black Organizing Project

Black Youth Project 100

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016.

Christina Sharpe

Color of Change

CTCORE-Organize Now

Ella Baker Center

Houston Justice

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017.
"The Black Poor, Black Elites, and America's Prisons." Cardoza Law Review 32, no. 3 (2011): 791-806.

James Forman, Jr.

Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion

Joy James

"Slavery, the Prison Industrial Complex"
"Slavery, the Prison Industrial Complex"

Keith Calhoun & Chandra McCormick

Lisa Corrigan

Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond. New York, NY: Atria, 2016.

Marc Lamont Hill

“Think Outside the Bars: Why Real Justice Means Fewer Prisons”

Michelle Alexander

Nikhil Pal Singh




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