Your Baltimore “Syllabus”
I. reminders from Ferguson
“When Rioting is Rational”
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/when-rioting-is-rational-ferguson
“In Defense of Black Rage”
“In Ferguson, the Violence of the State Created the Violence of the Street”
Resisting State Violence: Justice or Just Us?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/05/resisting-state-violence/
bell hooks “killing rage”
II. What’s up with Baltimore?
“The long, painful and repetitive history of how Baltimore became Baltimore”
“Two Reports Illustrate the Paradox of Baltimore”
“A Tale of Two Baltimores” (2011)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7J794-zddE&feature=share
“The Brutality of Police Culture on Baltimore”
“Baltimore Youths Have it Worse Than Those in Nigeria”
“Ten Shocking Facts About Baltimore”
http://www.alternet.org/economy/ten-shocking-facts-about-baltimore
“Baltimore Uprising in Context”
http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2015/04/27/baltimore-uprising-in-context/
“In Baltimore, We’re All Freddie Gray”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/opinion/in-baltimore-were-all-freddie-gray.html
“Sun Investigates: Undue Force”
http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/police-settlements/
“David Simon in Baltimore’s Anguish” (interview)
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/29/david-simon-on-baltimore-s-anguish
“Baltimore Been Burning”
http://www.ebony.com/news-views/baltimore-been-burning-503#ixzz3Yc4ZrHHv
“Baltimore’s Disgrace is Its History of Police Violence”
“Why Baltimore Burned”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamond/2015/04/28/why-baltimore-burned/
“Why Baltimore Rebelled”
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/baltimore-freddie-gray-unrest-protests/
“The Roots of Baltimore's Violence”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pedro-noguera/the-roots-of-baltimores-violence_b_7166864.html
“Beyond the Headlines, There’s Much More to West Baltimore”
“What You Really Need to Know about Baltimore, from a Reporter Who’s Lived There for over 30 Years”
“Architecture’s Role in Baltimore”
http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/architectures-role-in-baltimore_o
“A Bloody History of Police Brutality in Baltimore”
III. On “riots” and protest
“We Have a Right to Be in the Streets for Freddie”
http://socialistworker.org/2015/04/27/in-the-streets-for-freddie
“The Dominant White Response to Baltimore Shows Why Black Residents Are Justified in Their Anger”
“Baltimore: The Fire Next Time”
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/04/baltimore_the_fire_next_time.html
“Baltimore’s Violent Protestors Are Right”
(please note: the title of the blog where this was originally posted is a political re-appropriation of “faggot”)
“Nonviolence as Compliance”
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/nonviolence-as-compliance/391640/
historical perspective: The Kerner Commission Report on “riots,” 1968
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6545/
“A History of Rap Songs Against Police Brutality”
http://www.complex.com/music/2014/08/rap-songs-police-brutality/
“Silence on Black Female Victims Weakens Fight Against Police Brutality”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kali-nicole-gross/silence-on-black-female-victims_b_7092128.html
“The Baltimore Rebellion”
http://socialistworker.org/2015/04/29/the-baltimore-rebellion
Gang Members: We did not make truce to harm cops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HaaRZ8nxd4&feature=youtu.be
“Go Home, David Simon: Without Justice in Baltimore, There Can be No Peace” (a critique of SImon’s blog post criticizing “rioters”)
“What’s Happening in Baltimore Didn’t Just Start with Freddie Gray”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/28/freddie-gray-baltimore-history_n_7161962.html
“Reports from the Resistance”
http://socialistworker.org/2015/04/30/reports-from-the-resistance
“12 Powerful Responses To People Who Think The Baltimore Protests Are Unnecessary”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/30/baltimore-powerful-posts_n_7181822.html
‘How Western Media Would Cover Baltimore if It happened Elsewhere”
“There is no social change without coercion: Race, Baltimore, and how violence makes nonviolence possible”
“Riots Work: Wolf Blitzer and the Washington Post Completely Missed the Real lesson from Baltimore”
“Riots, rebellion, and the black working class”
http://socialistworker.org/2015/05/06/rebellion-and-the-black-working-class
“Baltimore Youth Are Not Thugs. They Are My Former Students - And They Are Loved”
IV. On the Bigger Picture
“Stealing a Bag of Potato Chips and Other Crimes of Resistance”
http://www.broomcenter.ucsb.edu/files/publications/pdf/rios1.pdf
“The Hyper-Criminalization of Black and Latino Male Youth in the Era of Mass Incarceration”
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8eBQGZrG7BFdnhWRzNNNl9ZOHM/edit
“Why Don’t American Cities Burn Very Often?”
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/martin3study/articles/Katz.pdf
“Who Killed L.A.: A Political Autopsy”
http://newleftreview.org/I/197/mike-davis-who-killed-los-angeles-a-political-autopsy
“The Case for Reparations”
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
“Segregation Now: The Re-segregation of America’s Schools”
http://www.propublica.org/article/segregation-now-the-resegregation-of-americas-schools/#intro
“The Night Chicago Burned”
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-night-chicago-burned/Content?oid=872662
“A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement”
http://thefeministwire.com/2014/10/blacklivesmatter-2/
“10 Things All White Folks Need to Consider About the #BaltimoreUprising”
http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/04/what-white-folks-need-to-know-about-baltimoreuprising/
“1.5 Million missing Black Men”
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/20/upshot/missing-black-men.html?_r=1&abt=0002&abg=0
“Policing Class”
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/08/baltimore-police-department-of-justice-freddie-gray
“The Rebellion in Baltimore is an Uprising Against Austerity, Claims Top US Academic”
“The role of the police is protecting capitalism”
https://socialistworker.org/blog/critical-reading/2014/12/09/main-role-police-protecting-ca
“A Lesson in Resistance: The Baltimore Uprising Comes to My Classroom”
“Paul Krugman on the Truly Devastating Lesson of Baltimore”
http://www.alternet.org/economy/paul-krugman-truly-devastating-lesson-baltimore
“After Baltimore and Ferguson, Major Momentum for Criminal Justice System Reform”
“Protecting and Serving White Supremacy”
https://socialistworker.org/2018/08/17/protecting-and-serving-white-supremacy
V. Movies
Race: The Power of an Illusion – Episode 3 – “The House We Live In”
http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-about-03.htm
Broken on All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration, and New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S.
The House I Live In
http://www.thehouseilivein.org/
Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card
http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/hard-times-at-douglass-high-no-child-left-behind#/
Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequality
The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975
http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/the-black-power-mixtape
Revolution ‘67
http://www.bongiornoproductions.com/REVOLUTION_67/REVOLUTION_67.html
http://www.pbs.org/pov/revolution67/
Crips & Bloods: Made in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPS9s3VrsdM
http://www.amazon.com/Crips-Bloods-Made-In-America/dp/B006JJ9JV2
The Throwaways: http://throwawaysmovie.com/
Eyes on the Prize: Two Societies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBJNt-LKVNE
VI. Books
The Hero’s Fight: African Americans in the Shadow of the State by Patricia Fernández-Kelly
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10328.html (twenty year ethnography of Baltimore)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Code-of-the-Street/
When Work Disappears: the World of the New Urban Poor
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/192111/when-work-disappears-by-william-julius-wilson/
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo13375722.html
More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/More-than-Just-Race/
Black Liberation and Socialism
http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Black-Liberation-and-Socialism
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674018211
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3627598.html
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/175140/sweet-land-of-liberty-by-thomas-j-sugrue/
Into the Fire: African-Americans Since 1970
Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
http://books.google.com/books/about/Race_Rebels.html?id=FN80lQEACAAJ
The Political Economy of Racism
http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/The-Political-Economy-of-Racism
How Racism Takes Place
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2089_reg.html
Are Prisons Obsolete?
http://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf
Not In My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City (Historical overview of Baltimore, especially around housing and segregation)
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People In The United States
http://www.queerinjustice.com/
VII. News/Memes/Videos from Baltimore
“How policy built segregation in Baltimore”
10,000 Strong Peacefully Protest In Downtown Baltimore, Media Only Reports The Violence & Arrest of Dozens
http://blackwestchester.com/2015/04/27/10000-peacefully-protest-bmore/
“Man Who Shot Freddie Gray Arrest Video: ‘I Finally Made a Difference’”
https://www.facebook.com/benjaminjhancock/videos/10153188750410590/?fref=nf
https://www.facebook.com/RickeySmileyOfficialFanPage/videos/884336188271373/?fref=nf
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/white-people-rioting-for-no-reason.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/29/you_can_replace_property_you_cant
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/28/baltimore-protester-media-coverage_n_7166018.html