THE READING LIST

2016 - 2017

K. J. Dell'Antonia. "When Parents Are in Prison, Children Suffer.” The New York Times, April 26, 2016.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/when-parents-are-in-prison-children-suffer/?_r=0

Jimmy Santiago Baca. A Place To Stand: The Making of A Poet. New York: Grove Press, 2001.

Jimmy Santiago Baca. Immigrants in Our Own Land Selected Early Poems. New York: New Directions Books, 1990.

James Baldwin. “Notes of A Native Son.” The Price of The Ticket. Collected Nonfiction 1948-1985. New York: St. Martin’s / Marek, 1985

Reginald Dwayne Betts. A Question of Freedom. New York: Avery The Penguin Group, 2009.

Reginald Dwayne Betts. Bastards of The Reagan Era. New York: Four Way Books, 2015

Claude Brown. Manchild in the Promised Land. New York: A Signet Book, 1965.

Collected Poems of Robert Hayden, edited by Frederick Glaysher. Liveright Publishing Corporation,

1966.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/46460

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself. Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office, 1845.

http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html

Frederick Douglass. “The Meaning of The Fourth of July for the Negro.” A speech given at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852.

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/douglassjuly4.html

Echoes of Incarceration

Ibis Productions, Brooklyn, New York

http://www.ibisdocs.com/Home.html

Ralph Ellison. The Invisible Man.  New York:  Vintage Books, 1989.

Langston Hughes. The Big Sea. New York: Thunder Mouth Press, 1940.

Robert L. Johnson (San Quentin, California). “Revolving Door.” Undoing Time, Edited and with an Introduction by Jeff Evans, Forward by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001.

Danuta Keen. "Vandals sentenced to read books about racism and anti-Semitism." The Guardian, February 7, 2017.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/07/vandals-sentenced-to-read-books-about-racism-and-antisemitism?mc_cid=84e1baf2d4&mc_eid=5f0d316e98

Ted Loos. “The Artist Nick Cave Gets Personal About Race and Gun Violence. The New York Times, August 12, 2016.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/arts/design/the-artist-nick-cave-gets-personal-about-race-and-gun-violence.html?amp;_r=0

Nina Martinex. "Frederick Douglass on How Slave Owners Used Food as a Weapon of Control." National Public Radio, February 10, 2017.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/10/514385071/frederick-douglass-on-how-slave-owners-used-food-as-a-weapon-of-control

Nathan McCall. Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America. New York: Vintage Books / Random House, 1994.

Patrick McCarthy. "How We Can Prepare Incarcerated Parents for Reentry." Talk Poverty, April 29, 2016.

https://talkpoverty.org/2016/04/29/how-we-can-prepare-incarcerated-parents-for-reentry/

Daniel C. Wright Mills. The Sociological Imagination. Chapter One: The Promise. 1959.

http://sites.middlebury.edu/utopias/files/2013/02/The-Promise.pdf

“New York Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents.” The Osbourne Association, 2010.

Sarah Sparks. "Parents Incarceration Takes Toll on Children, Studies Say." Education Week, February 25, 2015.Child Trends, October 27, 2015.

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/02/25/parents-incarceration-takes-toll-on-children-studies.html

Piri Thomas. Down These Mean Streets. New York: Vintage Books / Random House, 1997.

Ashley Alia Wong. "How Parental Incarceration Affects A Child's Education." The Atlantic, November 11, 2015.

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/11/how-parental-incarceration-affects-a-childs-education/414720/

Alexandra S, Levine. “New York Today: Our State Poet, Yusef Komunyakaa

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/nyregion/new-york-today-our-state-poet-yusef-komunyakaa.html

Jonathan Zimmerman. "Scholars Behind Bars." The New York Review of Books, February 23, 2017.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/02/23/scholars-behind-bars-college-prison/