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Brooklyn Law School: Race and the Law Week (Feb. 24-28, 2025): Explore BLS Library's Books

America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice (2022)

American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship (2021)

Black Muslims and the Law: Civil Liberties from Elijah Muhammad to Muhammad Ali (2015)

The Case for Eyewitness Identification Reform (2024)

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (c2017)

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a new preface (c2019)

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America (2020)

Criminal Justice in Divided America: Police, Punishment and the Future of Our Democracy (2025)

Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law (2022)

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (c2023)

Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement (c1995)

Critical Wage Theory: Why Wage Justice Is Racial Justice (2024)

The Dark Past: The U.S. Supreme Court and African Americans, 1800-2015 (2024)

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (2nd ed., c2010)

DisCrit Expanded: Reverberations, Ruptures, and Inquiries (c2022)

Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice (2015)

Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society (2024)

Excessive Punishment: How the Justice System Creates Mass Incarceration (2024)

Excluded & Alone: Examining the Experiences of Native American Women in the Law and a Path Towards Equity (2023)

The First Fifteen: How Asian American Women Became Federal Judges (2021)

Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment (2022)

His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (2022)

Homeland Insecurity: The Rise and Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law (2024)

Imagination: A Manifesto (c2024)

Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America (2022)

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (c2014)

Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration (2025)

Latinos and the Law: Cases and Materials (2021)

Law, Lawyers and Race: Critical Race Theory from the United States to Europe (c2016)

Law, Time and Historical Injustices: A Critical Analysis of Intuitive Judicial Reasoning (2024)

The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration (2024)

Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico (2024)

The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law (2024)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2020)

New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement (2025)

Juan Williams also is the author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (1987).

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (2019)

A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law (2018)

The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made (2025)

Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America (2025)

Pot for Profit: Cannabis Legalization, Racial Capitalism, and the Expansion of the Carceral State (2024)

Race, Racism, and International Law [forthcoming in Aug. 2025]

Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration (2023)

The author is BLS Professor & Associate Dean Jocelyn Simonson.

#SAYHERNAME: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence (2024)

Social Movements and the Law: Talking about Black Lives Matter and #MeToo (2024)

Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings (c2023)

They Came But Could Not Conquer: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Alaska Native Communities (2024)

Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit (2022)

Toxic Water, Toxic System: Environmental Racism and Michigan's Water War (2024)

Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal (2024)

Unjust Restitution: A Century of Black Struggle for Equality (2025)

The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States (2025)

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (2022)

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide (2022)

Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South: (c2016)

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (2021)

The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison (2022)

The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution (2025)

Toolkits

Implicit Bias Videos and Toolkit (@ American Bar Association)
These ABA videos and toolkit on implicit bias are publicly accessible.
Researching Mass Incarceration and Prison Abolition: Organizations, Partnerships & Toolkits
This is a link to a page of resources in Brooklyn Law School Library's research guide to assist those who wish to identify resources on mass incarceration and prison abolition.

BLS Rethinking Justice Project & Video of Book Talk on Radical Acts of Justice

BLS Center for Criminal Justice Site Includes a Description of the "Rethinking Justice" Program
This Center is led by Co-directors Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship Jocelyn Simonson, Professor of Clinical Law Kate Mogulescu, and Associate Professor of Law Alexis Hoag-Fordjour.
Note to BLS students: Applications for the Rethinking Justice student fellowship are posted and due in April each year.
Jocelyn Simonson and James Forman Jr. Discuss “Radical Acts of Justice” (Center for Brooklyn History Talk)

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