Racism: Resources for Understanding: Recommended Books: Non-fiction

Unfortunately, the library does not have all of the books recommended by reading lists.  Here is a list of books that are recommended, but regrettably not available through the library:

• Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation (2012)
• Badges without Borders:  How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed Policing (2019)
• Black Minds Matter: Realizing the Brilliance, Dignity, and Morality of Black Boys and Men (2019)
• The Body Keeps the Score: Memory and the Evolving Psychobiology of Posttraumatic Stress (2015)
• Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Exposé of the Dark Side of America’s Police (2009)
• The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (2001)
• Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love (2006)
• Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (2015)
• Fatal Invention:  How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (2018)
• First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles (2016)
• From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016)
• From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (2016)
• The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas (2018)
• Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (1997)
• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (2017)
• Our Enemies in Blue:  Police and Power in America (2015)
•  Police:  A Field Guide (2018)
• Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017)
• Policing Life and Death:  Race, Violence and Resistance in Puerto Rico (2019)
• Policing the Planet:  Why the Policing Crisis Lead to Black Lives Matter (2016)
• Policing a Class Society: The Experience of American Cities (1998)
• Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York (2019)
• The Price for Their Pound of Flesh (2017)
• Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco (2019)
• Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising (1993)
• Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education (2013)
• Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America (2011)
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (2008)
• States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons (2000)
• Violence Work:  State Power and the Limits of Police (2018)