Current events perspectives
For those of you with a little time on your hands and wanting to better understand some of the issues being protested around the globe these days, here’s a start:
- Elizabeth Hinton, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (2016). We have this as an eBook. (You may need to use your UUID.)
- Ibram X. Kendi, The American Nightmare, The Atlantic, June 1, 2020. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/american-nightmare/612457/
- Chenjerai Kumanyika, Policing and the “War on Black Bodies”, 43 College Literature 252-258. via Project Muse: https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.memphis.edu/article/606853/pdf (You may need to use your UUID to log in.)
- Gary Potter, The History of Policing in the United States. (Also check out the bibliography.) https://plsonline.eku.edu/sites/plsonline.eku.edu/files/the-history-of-policing-in-us.pdf
For more books and other articles on these issues, enter a search for Discrimination in criminal justice administration — United States in the Quick Search box on the library home page.
If you have trouble accessing any of the above or would like to explore more sources, please feel free to contact me. jstone5@memphis.edu
Be well. Stay safe and healthy!
