RESOURCES
UM PBP Resource Guide-coming soon!
This resource guide was created by Prison Birth Project’s research committee in order to provide information to community members including, but not limited to, family members of the incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and students interested in carceral justice. It will soon be linked on this page for anyone to access!
Relevant Books
PBP has put together a list of books relevant to carceral justice and anti-racism. We hope you have the opportunity to read these and expand your knowledge on these topics!
Jailcare by Carolyn Sufrin
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
For Dear Life by Carol Jacobsen
Charged by Emily Bazelon
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
American Prison by Shane Bauer
Other Resources
Classes at UMich
List updated for Fall 2025 Semester
AAS 271: Intro to Afro-American Literature
AAS 392: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Mental Health in the U.S.
AAS 558: Seminar in Black World Studies Section 001: American Carceral State: Origins and Implications
AAS 323 - Black Feminist Thought and Practice
Psych 120: First-Year Seminar in Psychology as a Social Science Section 012: Me, My Race, and I: Psychological Perspectives on Ethnic/Racial Identity and Socialization
WGS 150 - Humanities Seminars on Women and Gender
WGS 220 - Perspectives in Women's Health
WGS 240 - Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
WGS 410 - Reproductive Justice: Legal and Ethical Issues
RCSTP 300 - Socially Engaged Visual Art in Prison
SOC 495 - Topics in Sociology
Section 007: Theory and Practice of Restorative Justice
Section 005: Race, Place, and Inequality