Police Brutality & Racism

Between 2012 and 2016, what began as outrage over the unpunished murder of Trayvon Martin, evolved during the Ferguson uprising of 2014 into a network of more than fifty organizations working together under the rubric of the Movement for Black Lives coalition. Ransby outlines the scope and genealogy of this movement, documenting its roots in Black feminist politics and situating it squarely in a Black radical tradition, one that is anticapitalist, internationalist, and focused on some of the most marginalized members of the Black community.

Black women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment, stalking and incest. Through the compelling stories of Black women who have been most affected by racism and inequality, Richie demonstrates how conservative legal, social, political and economic policies have impacted activism in the U.S.-based movement to end violence against women. Arrested Justice brings issues of sexuality, class, age, and criminalization into focus right alongside of questions of public policy and gender violence, resulting in a compelling critique, a passionate re-framing of stories, and a call to action for change.

The Black Power movement represented a key turning point in American politics. Exploring the major political and intellectual currents from the Black Power era to the present, Johnson reveals how black political life gradually conformed to liberal democratic capitalism and how the movement's most radical aims were gradually eclipsed by more moderate aspirations. Documenting the historical retreat from radical, democratic struggle, Revolutionaries to Race Leaders ultimately calls for the renewal of popular struggle and class-conscious politics.

A powerful and illuminating study of how the racial achievement gap continues to afflict American schools more than fifty years after the formal dismantling of segregation. As students progress from elementary school to middle school to high school, their level of academic achievement increasingly tracks along racial lines, with white and Asian students maintaining higher GPAs and standardized testing scores, taking more advanced classes, and attaining better college admission results than their black and Latina/o counterparts. Where most research explain poor performance as a result of poverty or other external factors, Diamond and Lewis situate their research in a suburban school,and look at what factors within the school itself could be causing the disparity.

Demonstrates how critical race theory can be useful in real-world situations.

This book brings together a collection of social justice scholars and activists expanding the concept of prison to include any institution that dominates, oppresses, and controls. Criminologists and others, who have been concerned with reforming or dismantling the criminal justice system, have mostly avoided to look at larger carceral structures in society. A prison, as defined in this book, is an institution or system that oppresses and does not allow freedom for a particular group.

Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. By placing the individual stories of Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya Hall in the broader context of the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration, Andrea Ritchie documents the evolution of movements centered around women's experiences of policing. Invisible No More is an essential exposé on police violence against WOC that demands a radical rethinking of our visions of safety--and the means we devote to achieving it.