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My personal "wake up" text: When Affirmative Action was White by Ira Katznelson
How the Civil Rights movement affected the development of the American state by Megan Ming Francis
Recent collection of research on BLM (Nadia Brown)
BLM basics: See STAY WOKE by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith
See this thread citing work on history of black/white disparities in the U.S.
Learn about redlining and its legacy, see The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates or listen
For data see Mapping Inequality
See more on racial covenants and urban renewal data
For effects of zoing laws, see Jessica Trounstine Segregatation by Design
Learn more about the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King beyond "I Have a Dream"
Learn more about the Civil Rights Movement: Watch Eyes on the Prize
Evidence of ongoing racial discrimination: in hiring, across income, by representatives, in health
Research on how to improve policing (a threat by Dr. Jennifer Doleac)
Books on Mass Incarceration
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration--and How to Achieve Real Reform by John Pfaff
The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society by David Garland
Arresting Citizenship by Amy Lerman and Vesla Weaver (see summary of main points here)
Thread citing research on the effects of protest and police militarization (click the links)
Dropbox on political science research on policing
What we know about police violence
Check out https://www.idealist.org/en/
Interested in work in Texas? Look into the Texas Organizing Project
Check out the DataLab @TAMUPOLS
Looking toward a Ph.D.? Check out the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute for underrepresented students
Interest in climate change, security, economic development or human rights? Check out the Security and Political Economy Lab