J.W. Dickhaut Library: Anti-Racism Toolkit: Policing, Race, and Racial Justice

Featured Resources

Cambridge University Press: Protests, Policing, & Race
A collection of articles, book chapters, and complete books published by Cambridge University Press, made available with complimentary access for a limited time. This collection includes the book, "Discrimination Laundering: The Rise of Organizational Innocence and the Crisis of Equal Opportunity Law", by USF Law Faculty, Tristin Green.

Camera Power by Mary D. Fan
ISBN: 9781108418553
Publication Date: 2019-05-09

Films

The Talk: Race in America

This film documents the increasingly common conversation taking place in homes across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police.

Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland

In 2015, Sandra Bland, a politically active 28-year-old black woman from Chicago was arrested for a traffic violation in a small Texas town. Three days later, she was found dead in her cell. Though ruled a suicide, her death sparked allegations of racially motivated murder and made Bland's case a rallying point for activists across the country.

Policing the Police

The new FRONTLINE documentary, Policing the Police, is a provocative journey inside one police force that's been ordered to reform by the Department of Justice: the Newark Police Department in New Jersey.

Websites

ACLU: Know Your Rights
ACLU's Fact Sheet

Mapping Police Violence
This organization provides statistics about police violence towards communities of color in the United States.

ACLU: Police Brutality
American Civil Liberty Union's police brutality blog

Democracy Now: Police Brutality
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S. Above is a link to thier in depth coverage of incidents of police brutality.

Dispatches: Tracking US Police Brutality
Reporting on Police Brutality from around the world by Human Rights Watch

Police Reform Organizing Projects
Works to expose and correct abusive police tactics that routinely and disproportionately do harm to our city’s low-income communities and people of color.

Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States
Report by Human Rights Watch on Police Brutality around the United States between 1995 and 1998.