Books and Essays

• Mumia Abu Jamal, Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? (2017)
• Cassius Adair, "Licensing Citizenship: Anti-Blackness, Identification Documents, and Transgender Studies" (2019)
• Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010)
• Subini Annamma, The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus (2018)
• Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003)
• Sally Hadden, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (2003)
• DaMaris Hill, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland (2020)
• Andrea Ritchie, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (2017)
• Dorothy Roberts,Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1998)
• Michael D. White and Aili Malm, Cops, Cameras, and Crisis: The Potential and the Perils of Police Body-Worn Cameras (2020)
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

Other Resources

Check out episode 5 of ABWH TV, a production of the Association of Black Women Historians, "Black Women, History, and State Violence."

• Visit this excellent bibliography of works focused on the history of policing, organized by Hannah Alpert-Abrams.
• Here's another extensive bibliography: Reading Towards Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness