Black American Studies: Policing, Incarceration, Disinvestment

Students in a classroom after the second day of a busing program to desegregate Boston, MA schools  (Ed Jenner / The Boston Globe / Getty)

Policing, Incarceration, Disinvestment

• Broken Windows (George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson, 1982)

Modern analysis: 

• The Criminalization of Gentrifying Neighborhoods (Abdallah Fayyad, 2017)
• How the War on Drugs Kept Black Men Out of College (Tamara Gilkes Borr, 2019)
• Race and the Schooling of Black Americans (Claude M. Steele, 1992)
• The Prison Industrial Complex (Eric Schlosser, 1998)
• When They Get Out (Sasha Abramsky, 1999)
• Thank you, The Atlantic, 6/16/20