Race, Drugs & Violence
The War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom by Call Number: HV5825 .V36 2012ISBN: 9780982369753Publication Date: 2012-09-30
Biopolitics
French philosopher Michel Foucault used the term biopower to denote the exercise of control over bodies through regulatory systems and practices. The state employs a series of regulatory controls over the population in the guise of protecting life.
Biopower. (2007). In Feminist philosophies A-Z.
The Birth of Biopolitics by Call Number: JC574 .F6713 2010ISBN: 0312203411Publication Date: 2010-03-02- Beyond Biopolitics: essays on the governance of life and death byCall Number: JA80 .B49 2011ISBN: 9780822350033Publication Date: 2011-10-27
Right to the City
- Right to the CityFrench intellectual and philosopher Henri Lefebvre.published Right to the City in 1968.. Building from this powerful idea, international principles, and forward looking grassroots organizing, the Right to the City Alliance was established in January 2007.
The Right to the City: social justice and the fight for public space by Call Number: HT123 .M568 2003ISBN: 1572308478Publication Date: 2003-02-24
Social Justice and the City by Call Number: HT151 .H34 2009ISBN: 9780820334035Publication Date: 2009-10-15
Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings by Call Number: F129 .B7 P87 2013ISBN: 9780813141824Publication Date: 2013-04-30
The Prison Industrial Complex
- Prison Industrial Complex & Prison Abolition (Critical Resistance)Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. The prison industrial complex (PIC), according to the site "is a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems."
Discipline and Punish by Call Number: HV8666 .F6813 1977ISBN: 0679752552Publication Date: 1995-04-25
Normal Life: administrative violence, critical trans politics, and the limits of law by Call Number: KF4754.5 .S63 2011ISBN: 9780896087965Publication Date: 2011-12-06
- The Writings of Dean SpadeSpade is a Trans activist and lawyer whose work offers critical insights about PIC, administrative violence and neoliberalism.
Resistance Behind Bars : the struggles of incarcerated women by Call Number: HV6046 .L39 2012ISBN: 9781604865837Publication Date: 2012-10-05- Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci byCall Number: HX288 .G7 A23 1971ISBN: 071780397XPublication Date: 1971-10-01
Captive Genders : trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex by Call Number: HQ77.9 .C37 2011ISBN: 9781849350709Publication Date: 2011-10-18
Learning from the Past
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Fighting Back
The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back by Call Number: HQ796 .C5943 2012 ACSJ CollectionISBN: 9780814717165Publication Date: 2012-07-02
Shout Out: women of color respond to violence by Call Number: HV6250.4 .W65 S534 2008ISBN: 9781580052290Publication Date: 2007-12-28
Collective Action for Social Change by Call Number: HN65 .S4294 2012 ACSJ CollectionISBN: 9780230111257Publication Date: 2012-04-15
The Battle for Welfare Rights by Call Number: HV91 .K65 2007ISBN: 9780812240054Publication Date: 2007-06-01
Critical Race Theory
- Critical Race Theory: UCLAUCLA's webpage explaining Critical Race theory. From the site: Critical Race Theory was developed out of legal scholarship. It provides a critical analysis of race and racism from a legal point of view. Since its inception within legal scholarship CRT has spread to many disciplines. CRT has basic tenets that guide its framework. These tenets are interdisciplinary and can be approached from different branches of learning. with critiques of the conventional legal and scholarly norms which are themselves viewed as part of the illegitimate hierarchies that need to be changed.
Critical Race Theory: an introduction by Call Number: KF4755 .D454 2012ISBN: 9780814721346Publication Date: 2012-01-09
Capitalism & Ecomomic Inequality: Imagine Otherwise
The Anti-Capitalism Reader by Call Number: HB97.7 .A58 2002ISBN: 1888451335Publication Date: 2002-06-01
Utopia or Bust: a Guide to the Present Crisis by Call Number: HB501 .K827 2014ISBN: 9781781683279Publication Date: 2014-03-11
- Jacobin MagazineJacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture
- Inequality.orgFocuses on the dangers that growing inequality pose for U.S. democracy, economic health and civic life. It is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies and based in Boston, MA.