Research Guides: Black Lives Matter Resources: Home

Welcome

Librarians will continue to add resources and links to this page to help our Vanderbilt community learn about the Black Lives Matter movement and the interplays of race, class, and policing in the United States.

All books are linked to their record in the Library Catalog. If an online version is not available, submit a request and we can either purchase an ebook copy or schedule a pickup for the physical copy!

If you'd rather purchase a copy, consider supporting a Black-owned independent bookstore near you.

A Word about Anti-Racist Reading Lists
Reading is just the first step.

Web Resources

Black Lives Matter Nashville
The Black Lives Matter Network is a chapter-based national organization working for the validity of Black liberation movement.
Critical Resistance
"Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex."
For A World Without Police
"The more we learn about police brutality and murder, the clearer it becomes this behavior is an ongoing, systemic pattern."
MPD150
MPD150 is a participatory, horizontally-organized effort by local organizers, researchers, artists and activists to establish practical abolitionist strategies.
Southerners on New Ground
A multi-issue southern justice movement that unites us across class, age, race, ability, gender, immigration status, and sexuality; a movement in which LGBTQ people – poor and working class, immigrant, people of color, rural – take our rightful place as leaders shaping our region’s legacy and future.
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Includes publication: Law Enforcement Violence Against Women of Color and Trans People of Color: A Critical Intersection Of
Gender Violence & State Violence.