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Current Topics: An Undergraduate Research Guide : Black Lives Matter Movement
News
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Ethnic NewsWatchEthnic NewsWatch (ENW) features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives.
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Newspaper Source PlusNewspaper Source Plus includes 1,520 full-text newspapers, providing more than 28 million full-text articles.
Organizations
See "Overview Resources - Background Information" above for more organizations.
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Black Alliance for Just ImmigrationBAJI educates and engages African American and black immigrant communities to organize and advocate for racial, social and economic justice.
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National Black Justice CoalitionThe National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) is a civil rights organization dedicated to empowering Black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people
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Showing Up for Racial JusticeSURJ is a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice.
About the Black Lives Matter Movement
From the official website, Black Lives Matter is a movement "whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives."
Try searching these terms in different combinations using the resources linked on this page: black lives matter, blacklivesmatter, policing AND racial disparities, "social media" AND "black lives matter", racial justice, social justice, black liberation, black feminism, race AND prison, race AND education, race AND employment
Overview Resources - Background Information
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Black Lives Matter movement - official websiteThis website, maintained by the founders of the movement, provides an overview, a "herstory" of the movement, events, and news. Also includes links to relevant social media accounts.
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The Movement for Black Lives"In response to the sustained and increasingly visible violence against Black communities in the U.S. and globally, a collective of more than 50 organizations representing thousands of Black people from across the country have come together with renewed energy and purpose to articulate a common vision and agenda." Includes a list of organizations, platform information, and informative handouts and guides.
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Wikipedia - Black Lives MatterThe Wikipedia entry about the movement. Extremely detailed with an extensive bibliography and suggestions for further reading. Be attentive to the potential for vandalism and confirm facts with a second source!
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Professor Frank Leon Roberts - Black Lives Matter SyllabusMuch more than an overview resource! A complete course, including readings and videos, offered online and at NYU, taught by Professor Frank Leon Roberts. The first of its kind on the topic.
Books
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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Activist and historian Keeyanga-Yamahtta Taylor traces the origins of the Black Lives Matter movement's struggle against police violence, situating it in the context of an increasingly economically and racially unequal society. Taylor advocates for broadening the struggle against police violence to address the entirety of a racial capitalism that has contributed to the immiseration and brutalization of millions.ISBN: 9781608465620Publication Date: 2016-02-23 -
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by An artist and self-described Freedom Fighter, Patrisse Khan-Cullors details her role in the founding of the Black Lives Matter movement. She writes of how her experience growing up poor and black is Los Angeles pushed her to dedicate her life to activism against police violence.In response to the shooting of Trayvon Martin in 2014, Khan-Cullors collaborated with other activists and artists to begin one of the most visible anti-racist movements in contemporary political life.Call Number: E185.97.K43 A3 2018ISBN: 1250171083Publication Date: 2017 -
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Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter by This book of essays traces the rise and spread of "broken-windows" policing, a set of practices which seeks to prevent violence with harsh punishments for small infractions. This book collects scholarship and first-hand accounts to tell the story of the expansion of police power globally and what it means for black and brown youth.ISBN: 9781784783167Publication Date: 2016-05-24 -
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Among the most celebrated black radicals of her era, Angela Davis uses this essay collection to situate the contemporary movement for black liberation in the context of other freedom struggles both historically and globally. By recognizing this terrain of struggle as a shared one, she argues, activists can begin to build the solidarity necessary to challenge oppressive structures.Call Number: JC571 .D38 2016ISBN: 1608465640Publication Date: 2016 -
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward edits this collection of essays, memoirs, and poems on race in America, drawing inspiration from James Baldwin's groundbreaking The Fire Next Time. This book is divided into historical takes on racism, commentary on our current moment, and projections for a brighter future.Call Number: E185.615 .F526 2016ISBN: 1501126342Publication Date: 2016
Articles - Scholarly and Popular
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Academic SearchIncludes scholarly and popular articles on many topics.
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America: History and Lifeincludes social science and humanities articles about United States and Canadian history.
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PsycINFOincludes articles, book chapters, and books in the field of psychology, behavioral science and mental health.
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SocINDEX with Full Textincludes articles on sociology topics.
Statistics and Data
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Bureau of Justice Statistics - Law EnforcementBJS's Law Enforcement Unit maintains more than a dozen national data collections, covering federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and special topics in law enforcement.
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Harvard Kennedy School - Excessive or Reasonable Force by Police?Based at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Journalist’s Resource examines news topics through a research lens. We surface scholarship relevant to media practitioners, bloggers, educators, students and general readers.