1-800 HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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1-800 Happy Birthday Spotify Playlist
Mass Incarceration, Policing, and Abolition
Alexander, M. (2010). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press.
Butler, P. (2017). Chokehold: Policing Black Men. The New Press.
Davis, A. Y. (2011). Are Prisons Obsolete? Seven Stories Press.
Forman, J. (2018). Locking up our own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Kaba, M. (2021). We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice. Haymarket Books.
Shakur, A. (2014). Assata: An Autobiography. Zed Books.
Vitale, A. S. (2017). The End of Policing. Verso Books.
Race & Racism
Ortiz, P. (2018). An African American and Latinx History of the United States. Beacon Press.
Muhammad, K. G. (2019). The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Harvard University Press.
Sharpe, C. E. (2016). In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Duke University Press.
Wilkerson, I. (2010). The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. Penguin Random House.
Black Power
Carson, C., Garrow, D.J., Gill, G., Harding, V., and Hine, D.C. (1995). The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, speeches, and firsthand accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1990. Penguin Random House.
Haley, A. (1999). The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley. Random House.
Ogbar, J. O. G. (2004). Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Healing & Trauma
Burke, T., & Brown, B. (2022). You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience. Penguin Random House.
Hersey, T. (2022). Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto. The Nap Ministry.
Lee, M. R. (2022). Grief is Love: Living with Loss. Legacy Lit.
Menakem, R. (2021). My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Penguin Books.
Quashie, K. (2012). The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture. Rutgers University Press.
van Der Kolk, B. (2015). The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Penguin Random House.
Essays & Non-Fiction
Angelou, M. (1969). I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Random House.
Baldwin, J. (1955). Notes of a Native Son. Beacon Press.
Baldwin, J. (2021). The Fire Next Time. Modern Library.
Carr, G., & Smitherman, D. (2018). This Stops Today: Eric Garner's Mother Seeks Justice after Losing Her Son. Rowman & Littlefield.
Coates, T. (2015). Between the World and Me. Spiegel & Grau.
Hannah-Jones, N. (2021). The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. Penguin Random House.
Hurston, Z. N. (2019). Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo". Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Samuels, R., & Olorunnipa, T. (2022). His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice. Bantam Press.
Novels & African American Literature
Baldwin, J. (2013). Go Tell It on the Mountain. Vintage International.
Butler, O. E. (2022). Kindred. Beacon Press.
Greenlee, S. (1989). The Spook Who Sat by the Door. Wayne State University Press.
Irwin-Henry, S. (2021). Children of the Star. LifeRich Publishing.
Morrison, T. (2016). A Mercy. Vintage International.
From the Celebrants
Browder, A. T. (2000). From the Browder File: 22 Essays on the African American Experience. Institute of Karmic Guidance.
Greene, R. (1998). The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Random House.
Poetry
Bracey, J. H. (2014). SOS–Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader. University of Massachusetts Press.
Ewing, E. L. (2017). Electric Arches. Haymarket Books.
Jess, T. (2005). leadbelly. Wave Books.
Mans, J. (2021). Black Girl, Call Home. Penguin Publishing Group.
Rankine, C. (2014). Citizen: An American Lyric. Graywolf Press.
Rankine, C. (2022). Just Us: An American Conversation. Graywolf Press.
Smith, D. (2017). Don’t Call Us Dead. Graywolf Press.
Children’s Books/Resources
Elliott, Z., & Denmon, N. (2021). A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart. Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers.
Marley, C., Brantley-Newton, V., & Marley, B. (2021). One Love. Chronicle Books
Medina, T., Robinson, S., Jennings, J., & Stevenson, B. (2017). I Am Alfonso Jones. Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc.
Watson, D., Hagopian, J., & Au, W. (2018). Teaching for Black Lives. Rethinking Schools.
Woodson, J., López, R., & Mlawer, T. (2018). El día en que descubres quién eres. Nancy Paulsen Books.
Art & Exhibition Catalogues
Enwezor, O. (2021). Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America. Phaidon.
Farrington, L. E. (2005). Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists. Oxford University Press.
Fleetwood, N. R. (2020). Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Harvard University Press.
Oliver, V. C. (2021). The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse. Duke University Press.
Gorman, A. (2021). The Hill We Climb. Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Ellison, R. (1952). Invisible Man. Vintage Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Laymon, K. (2021). Long Division. Simon and Schuster.
Crump, B. (2019). Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People. Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Blow, C. (2021). The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto. Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Metzl, Jonathan. (2019). Dying of Whiteness: How The Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland. Basic Books.
Thomas, A. (2017). The Hate U Give. Balzer + Bray, and imprint of HarperCollins.
Stevenson, B. (2019). Just Mercy. One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Being A Black Man, By The Staff of the Washington Post. Washington Post.
