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

Local Orgs

WORTH- Women’s Organization on Rights to Health

UMich Behind Bars

PROS- Prisoner’s Rights Organization of Students

ASFC Michigan Criminal Justice Program

SJM- Safe & Just Michigan

CCMO- Center for Youth and Families

PCAP- Prison Creative Arts Project at UofM

Classes at UMich

List updated for Winter 2022 Semester

  • AAS 201: Intro to Afro-American Studies

  • AAS 271: Intro to Afro-American Literature

  • AAS 290: Tulsa Race Massacre

  • AAS 248: Crime, Race, and the Law

  • AAS 303/SOC 303: Race & Ethnic Relations

  • ALA 220: Foundations of Intergroup Relations

  • AMCULT 214: Intro to Asian/Pacific American Studies

  • AMCULT 240: Intro to Women’s and Gender Studies

  • AMCULT 301: Asian/Pacific Islander Americans in the Civil Rights Movement

  • AMCULT 405: Topics in American Culture (Section 017-The Politics of Belonging)

  • HISTORY 261: United States, 1865 to the Present (Section 001-Issues in Race and Ethnicity)

  • WGS 240: Intro to Women’s Studies

  • WGS 304: Gender and Immigration: Identity, Race, and Place

  • WGS 323: Black Feminism Thought and Practice

  • SOC 270: Gender and the Law

  • SOC 495.004: Race & Sexuality