Our political education team has put together a list of resources that we as a campaign have learned from while pursuing our own work. There is no right way to approach this list: no one resource is more important than the others; they all have their own value. Nor is this list exhaustive or definitive by any means. In fact, each book or article or syllabus you peruse will almost certainly refer you back to other, previous works. But we would like to offer it to you as an opportunity to begin a deeper exploration of these issues than we have been able to communicate through our own writing. We are grateful to always be learning from those who have come before us, especially BIPOC activists, scholars, and storytellers.
GETTING STARTED
National Bail Out, Until Freedom Comes: A Comprehensive Bail Out Toolkit, 2018
The Movement for Black Lives, Et al., Transformative Bail Reform: A Popular Education Curriculum, 2017
Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan, Fumbling Toward Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators, 2019
Critical Resistance, The CR Abolition Organizing Toolkit, 2004
RESOURCE GUIDES AND SYLLABI
NYU Sanctuary, “Sanctuary Syllabus”
Freedom for Immigrants, “The Immigration Detention Syllabus”
CultureStrike, “Learning Library”
University of Minnesota, “Immigration Syllabus”
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Crimmigration Blog
Micah Herskind, “Resource Guide: Prisons, Policing, and Punishment”
Daniela Gerson and Elizabeth Aguilera, “Migratory Notes”
SOME MOVEMENTS WE’RE LEARNING FROM
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Free Them All for Public Health
ON MIGRATION
Butterfly Story Collective, “Divine’s Hope,” 2017
Anahí Viladrich, “Beyond welfare reform: Reframing undocumented immigrants’ entitlement to health care in the United States, a critical review,” 2012
Heide Castañeda, Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families, 2019
Mikaela Shwer, No Le Digas a Nadie (Don’t Tell Anyone), 2015
Benjamin Ndugga-Kabuye and Tia Oso, “Forged in Struggle: How Migration, Resistance and Decolonization Shape Black Identities and Liberation Movements in North America,” 2015
Javier Zamora, Unaccompanied, 2017
POLICING MIGRANTS
Daniel Denvir, “The Dig: Rethinking Migration with Aziz Rana,” 2017
Mae Ngai, “Birthright Citizenship and the Alien Citizen,” 2007
Kelly Lytle-Hernández, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol, 2010
Flatbush Pictures, Hassan v. NYPD, 2018
Greg Grandin, “How the United States Weaponized the Border Wall,” 2019
Narcy, “PHATWA,” 2009
DETENTION
Indefensible, “Episode 4: Cooking Up Resistance,” 2018
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, “Abolishing Immigration Prisons,” 2017
Worth Rises, Immigration Detention: An American Business, 2019
Rachel Taber, “Women detained at Irwin County ICE Processing Center Fight for Their Lives Against COVID19,” 2020
Aura Bogado, “The Disappeared,” 2020
Kristyn Scorsone, “Making Art, Resisting Detention,” 2018