COMMENTARY – DOMESTIC
- Greg Howard, “America is Not For Black People,” Deadspin
- Jelani Cobb, “Between the World and Ferguson,” The New Yorker
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Michael Brown’s Unremarkable Humanity,” The Atlantic
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Reparations for Ferguson,” The Atlantic
- Jaeah Lee, “Exactly How Often Do Police Shoot Unarmed Black Men?” Mother Jones
- Marcia Chatelain, “How to Teach Kids About What’s Happening in Ferguson,” The Atlantic
- The Daily Show : Race/Off
COMMENTARY – INTERNATIONAL
- BBC News – Ferguson Protests
- Markus Feldenkirchen, “‘We’re Like Animals to Them’: An American City’s Daily Racism,” Spiegel (Germany)
- Gary Younge, “In Ferguson the violence of the state created the violence of the street,” The Guardian (UK)
- Gary Younge, “Ferguson’s black community must not be given the same ‘justice’ as Trayvon Martin,” The Guardian (UK)
- Jonathan Watts, “From Ferguson to Rio: two black teenagers shot dead by police, two very different reactions,” The Guardian (UK)
- Editorial, “A shameful history repeating itself,” The Age (Australia)
BOOKS
- Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow
- David Oshinsky’s Worse Than Slavery
- Naomi Murakawa, “The Origins of the Carceral Crisis: Racial Order as ‘Law and Order’ in Postwar American Politics,” in Race and American Political Development
- Michael Flamm’s Law and Order
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