Book Display for the 2024 Program on Race, Gender, and Policing's Black Legal Futurism Conference: April 5, 2024: Legal and Social Titles

Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Angela Davis, one of America's most remarkable political figures, gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics and prison within this context.

This intensely personal and political autobiography is a signal contribution to the literature about growing up Black in America that has already taken its place alongside The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the works of Maya Angelou.

In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with one phrase in particular which anchored itself in listeners' minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in US history, the people have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future.

Drawing on exclusive interviews with power brokers such as President Obama, Vernon Jordan, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and many others, as well as her own razor-sharp observations and analysis of such issues as the race/gender clash and the "black enough" conundrum, Ifill shows why this is a pivotal moment in American history.

Through extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has lauded as "brilliant" (The Atlantic), Rothstein comes to chronicle nothing less than an untold story that begins in the 1920s, showing how the process of de jure segregation began with explicit racial zoning, as millions of African Americans moved in a great historical migration from the south to the north.

By re-writing US Supreme Court opinions that implicate critical dimensions of racial justice, Critical Race Judgments demonstrates that it's possible to be judge and a critical race theorist in areas such as gender, policing, etc.

This 21st century reader shakes up the legal academy, questions comfortable liberal premises, and leads the search for new ways of thinking about our nation's most intractable, and insoluble, problem - race.

In this volume, thirty-one CRT scholars present their views on the ideas and methods of CRT, its role in academia and in the culture at large, and its past, present, and future.

Taking inspiration from Public Enemy's lead vocalist Chuck D - who once declared that 'rap is the CNN of young Black America' - this volume brings together leading legal commentators to make sense of some of the most pressing law and policy issues in the context of hip-hop music and the ongoing struggle for Black equality.

The collection offers a variety of critical perspectives on race, analyzing the causes, consequences and manifestations of race, racism, and inequity in schooling, and unique contributions published within the last five years.

With a title referring to the notorious Jim Crow laws that segregated black and white people in the US in the first half of the 20th century, Invisible Jim Crow lays bare the harsh facts of how, despite the first black President, very similar forces are still at work in the US today.

This groundbreaking book gives its readers a cogent legal and historical argument for a radically new, and socially transformative, definition of "liberty" and "equality" for the American polity from a black feminist perspective.

Masculinities and the Law applies multidimensional masculinities theory to law and both expands the field of masculinities and develops new thinking about important issues in feminist and critical race theories.

Wind, then a young journalist, gives an account of lawyers & co-operative legal groups at the ACLU and the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee as well as discusses the work of poverty rights & consumer rights lawyers and NAACP, Black Panther, and UFW lawyers.

This book provides a detailed examination of the life and legal legacy of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. As a lawyer, he won the Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, but his contributions extend far beyond significantly advancing the civil rights movement in this nation.

Booker T. Washington believed that every man and woman deserved a chance, regardless of their skin color. This classic work relays the story of a man born into slavery who, once freed, pursued education and racial equality. He established the Tuskegee Machine to advance the cause of African Americans through education and business.

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.

Four prominent legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory draw on the experience of injury from racist hate speech to develop a First Amendment interpretation that recognizes such injuries.

A History of Black Futures explores the evolving and exhilarating concept of Afrofuturism, a lens used to imagine a more empowering future for the Black community through music, art, and speculative fiction.

In this hip, accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism, author Ytasha Womack introduces readers to the burgeoning community of artists creating Afrofuturist works, the innovators from the past, and the wide range of subjects they explore.

This book represents a transition from previous ideas related to Afrofuturism that were formed in the late 20th century around issues of the digital divide, music, and literature by broadening the discussion around the concept to include religion, architecture, communications, visual art, and philosophy.

A newly expanded edition of Octavia E. Butler's only collection of short stories. Butler graces new mansions of thought with her eloquent, distinguished, and poignant prose.

A timely text that critically situates Butler's fiction in American, African-American, gender, and science fiction studies which attempts to include as many readers as possible by evading esoteric jargon while still engaging the interdisciplinary discourses that respond to Butler's fiction.

Jemisin's most incredible novel yet is a "glorious" story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City. In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power.

The author illuminates the interplay of Black religious thought with science fiction narratives to present a bold case for Afrofuturism as an important channel to center the diversity of Black spirituality.

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower: After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity -- before their powers destroy what is left of humankind.

The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.

From Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin, Shahar and the godling Sieh must confront the terrible magic threatening to consume their world in the incredible conclusion to the Inheritance Trilogy.

“Whoever controls our memories controls the future.” Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller.

This is a radically speculative odyssey of a young Black woman in a post-apocalyptic America and the community she cultivates despite the horrors of climate change and social inequality imagined in the year 2025.

This research-based book foregrounds Black narrative traditions and honors alternative methods of data collection, analysis, and representation and presents a semi-fictionalized narrative in an alternative science fiction setting, refusing white-centric qualitative methods and honoring the ways of the griots, who were scholars of African nations.

From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Butler experienced an American childhood that shaped her into a visionary storyteller whose novels continue to challenge and delight readers fifteen years after her passing.