Related Material for the Tufts University Forum on Race, Inequality and Action

Articles:

• “We Can’t Ignore the Link Between Ferguson and Those Attica Prison Guards’ Brutality.” The Root, Peniel Joseph, Mar. 4, 2015.
• “How Science Is Helping America Tackle Police Racism.” Wired, Marcus Woo, Jan. 21, 2015.
• “’Selma’ Backlash Misses The Point.” NPR, Peniel Joseph, Jan. 10, 2015.
• “In Ferguson.” The New York Review of Books, Darryl Pinckney, Jan. 8, 2015.
• “Police Kill Black Women All The Time, Too — We Just Don’t Hear About It.” Bustle, Evette Dionne, Dec. 8, 2014.
• “Black Bodies, Broken Worlds.” Counterpunch, Vijay Prashad, Dec. 8, 2014.
• “Barack Obama and Ferguson: The cost of being the reluctant black president.” Reuters, Peniel Joseph, Nov. 26, 2014.
• “Opinion: Finding the Real Unrest in Ferguson.” Newsweek, Peniel Joseph, Nov. 25, 2014.
• “Ferguson Is a Wake-Up Call That We Are Not Post-Racial.” The Root, Peniel Joseph, Nov. 25, 2014.
• “Black And Unarmed: Women And Girls Without Weapons Killed By Law Enforcement.” Role Reboot, Khadijah Costley White, Aug. 12 2014.
• “Professors Are Prejudiced, Too.” The New York Times, Dolly Chugh, Katherine L. Milkman and Modupe Akinola, May 9, 2014.
• “Black Women Are Killed by Police, Too.” Dame Magazine, Kirsten West Savali.

Reports:

• “To Avert the Next Ferguson, Reschedule Elections to Make Local Politics More Representative.” Scholar Strategy Network, Zoltan Hajnal, UC San Diego, 2015.
• “The Making of Ferguson.” Economic Policy Institute, Richard Rothstein, Oct. 15, 2014.
• “How Harsh Policing and Mass Imprisonment Create Second-Class American Citizens.” Scholar Strategy Network, Amy E. Lerman, UC Berkley and Vesla M. Weaver, Yale, 2014.
• “The Growth of Incarceration in the United States—Causes, Consequences, and Proposed Reform.” Scholar Strategy Network, Bruce Western, Harvard, 2014.
• “How Discrimination Hurts Health and Personal Wellbeing.” Scholar Strategy Network, Eric A. Grollman, University of Richmond, 2014.
• “How America’s Engorged Prison and Surveillance System Threatens Civic Trust and Democracy.” Scholar Strategy Network, Joe Soss, University of Minnesota, 2014.
• “What Scholars Know – And Need to Learn – About the Social Effects of Mass Incarceration.” Scholar Strategy Network, Kristin Turney, UC Irvine, 2014.
• “Mass Imprisonment and Growing Distrust in the Law.” Scholar Strategy Network, Christopher Muller, Columbia, 2014.
• “Children of Imprisoned Parents and the Future of Inequality in the United States.” Scholar Strategy Network, Sara Wakefield, Rutgers and Christopher Wildman, Yale, 2013.
• “How U.S. Urban Unrest in the 1960s Can Help Make Sense of Ferguson, Missouri, and Other Recent Protests.” Scholar Strategy Network, Ashley M. Howard, Loyola University, 2012.
• “The Deportation Crisis for Latino Immigrant Men and Their Families.” Scholar Strategy Network, Tanya Golash-Boza, UC Merced, 2012.
• “Legal Violence in the Lives of Immigrants: How Immigration Enforcement Affects Families, Schools, and Workplaces.” Center for American Progress, Cecilia Menjívar and Leisy Abrego, 2012.
• “Black, Brown, and Targeted.” ACLUM. 

Symposia:

• Aspen Institute Symposium on The State of Race in America
• Tufts Forum on Race, Inequality and Action