Histories of Activist Work
- Larnies A. Bowen, Ayanna Legros, Tianna Paschel, Geísa Mattos, Kleaver Cruz & Juliet Hooker, "A Hemispheric Approach to Contemporary Black Activism" (2017)
- Meredith D. Clark, "Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #BlackLivesMatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice" (2016)
- Jennifer Cobbina, Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America (2019)
- Alicia Garza, "A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement" (2014)
- David B. Green, Jr. "Hearing the Queer Roots of Black Lives Matter" (2020)
- Maulana Karenga. "Kawaida and Its Critics: A Sociohistorical Analysis" Journal of Black Studies 8.2 (1977).
- Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (2018)
- Deva Woodley, The Politics of Common Sense: How Social Movements Use Public Discourse to Change Politics and Win Acceptance (2015)
Guidance for Doing Activist Work
- Molefi Kete Asante, Revolutionary Pedagogy (2017)
- Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work (2020)
- Derald Wing Sue, Sarah Alsaidi, Michael N. Awad, Elizabeth Glaeser, Cassandra Z. Calle, and Narolyn Mendez, "Disarming Racial Microaggressions: Microintervention Strategies for Targets, White Allies, and Bystanders." (2019)
Credits:
Created with an image by Library of Congress - "Civil rights march on Washington, D.C. Film negative by photographer Warren K. Leffler, 1963. From the U.S. News & World Report Collection. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. Photograph shows a procession of African Americans carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias. https://www.loc.gov/item/2003654393/"