Introduction
This keyword list offers an alternative way to move through the Barring Freedom website by indexing some of the themes and ideas that artists touched on in their interviews and/or that we see connecting across different artworks. Clicking on an artist name after a keyword will take you to the relevant place on the artist’s page. Below the index are the bibliography of texts we have cited in the study guides and exhibition pages and a list of readings suggested for further study by the artists.
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Index
Abjection
Abolition
Maria Gaspar, Prison Renaissance, Ashley Hunt, Hank Willis Thomas, jackie sumell
Abstraction
Activism
Animation
Architecture
Black Lives Matter
Black Panther Party
Blackness
Central California Women’s Facility
Court Documents
COVID-19
Death Penalty
Declaration of Independence
Defund the Police
Democracy
Empire
Fetishization
Fingerprints
Foundations
Framing
Frustration
Hair
History
- Dread Scott
- Abolition Movement Hank Willis Thomas
- Betsy Ross Sharon Daniel
- Civil Rights Movement Ashley Hunt
- Civil War Sonya Clark, Ashley Hunt
- Jim Crow Sonya Clark
- Vietnam War Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
- War on Drugs Levester Williams
Landscape
Language
Materials (Meaning of)
Sherrill Roland, Levester Williams, Sonya Clark, Hank Willis Thomas
Memorial
Mental Health
National Flags
Pedagogy
Performance
Pledge of Allegiance
Police Violence
Ashley Hunt, Sanford Biggers, Sharon Daniel
Blue Identity American Artist
George Floyd Dread Scott
Michael Brown Levester Williams
Sandra Bland American Artist
Portraits
Power Redistribution
Predictive Policing
Printmaking
Privacy
Protest
Racial Categories
Racial Profiling
American Artist, Maria Gaspar, Dread Scott, Titus Kaphar and Reginald Betts
Redaction
Redemption
Resistance
Restrictions
Revolution
Sculpture
American Artist, Sanford Biggers, Sonya Clark, Sharon Daniel, jackie sumell, Patrice Renee Washington, Levester Williams
Site-Specific
Sound Installation
Soy Paz, Soy Más
Spectacle
Strength
Surveillance
Sadie Barnette, American Artist, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun, Dread Scott
Tar Baby
Testimony
Textile
Underground Scholars
Video Art
Sharon Daniel, American Artist, Maria Gaspar, Dread Scott, Sonya Clark, Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
Visibility
American Artist, Maria Gaspar, Ashley Hunt, Sherrill Roland, Prison Renaissance
Walls
White Supremacy
Whiteness
Wrongful Incarceration
Bibliography
Alexander, Michelle
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
New York: The New Press, 2012.
Bozelko, Chandra
Think Prison Labor Is a Form of Slavery? Think Again.
Los Angeles Times, October 20, 2017, sec. Opinion.
Browne, Simone
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
Cullors, Patrisse
Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors Explains Her Fight for Prison Abolition
Teen Vogue, February 22, 2019.
Davis, Angela Y.
Politics & Aesthetics in the Era of Black Lives Matter.
NYU, November 5, 2018.
Feldman, Kiera
California Kept Prison Factories Open. Inmates Worked for Pennies an Hour as COVID-19 Spread.
Los Angeles Times, October 11, 2020, sec. California.
Fleetwood, Nicole R.
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2020.
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, and James Kilgore
The Case for Prison Abolition.
The Marshall Project, June 19, 2019.
Hartman, Saidiya
Saidiya Hartman on Insurgent Histories and the Abolitionist Imaginary.
Artforum, July 14, 2020.
Kaba, Mariame
“Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police.
The New York Times, June 12, 2020, sec. Opinion.
How We See the World
Mirzoeff, Nicholas
Basic Books, 2016.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas
The Appearance of Black Lives Matter | NAME
Ebook., 2017.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas
The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.
Sanchez, Angel E.
In Spite of Prison.
Harvard Law Review 132, no. 6 (April 2019): 1650–83.
Story, Brett
Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America.
Illustrated Edition. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Wang, Jackie
Carceral Capitalism
Semiotext(e) Intervention Series 21. South Pasadena, CA: Semiotexte, 2018.
Woodfox, Albert
Solitary
New York: Grove Press, 2019.
Zimmerman, Emily, and Sadie Barnette
The Politics of Sight.
BOMB Magazine. April 21, 2020.
Artists’ Suggested Reading
Agard, John
Half-Caste and Other Poems
UK ed. Edition. London: Hodder Children’s Books, 2005.
Alexander, Michelle
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
New York: The New Press, 2012.
Anzaldúa, Gloria
Borderlands = La Frontera: The New Mestiza.
First edition. San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1987.
Avakian, Bob
BAsics, from the Talks and Writings of Bob Avakian
Original Edition. Chicago: RCP Publications, 2011.
Barrett, Lindon
Blackness and Value : Seeing Double
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Gibran, Kahlil
Sand and Foam ; a Book of Aphorisms.
New York: Knopf, 1954.
Haney, Craig
Death by Design: Capital Punishment As a Social Psychological System
Illustrated Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Herzing, Rachel
Big Dreams and Bold Steps Toward a Police-Free Future
Truthout. September 16, 2015.
Kaba, Mariame, and John Duda
Towards the Horizon of Abolition: A Conversation with Mariame Kaba.
The Next System Project. November 9, 2017.
Klonsky, Amanda
An Epicenter of the Pandemic Will Be Jails and Prisons, If Inaction Continues.
The New York Times, March 16, 2020, sec. Opinion.
Painter, Nell Irvin
The History of White People
First edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
Rankine, Claudia.
Citizen: An American Lyric
1st Edition. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2014.
Allen, Diane Jones
Lost in the Transit Desert: Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form
1st Edition. London : New York: Routledge, 2017.
Blackmon, Douglas A.
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II
First edition. New York: Doubleday, 2008.
Blakinger, Keri
As COVID-19 Measures Grow, Prison Oversight Falls.”
The Marshall Project, March 17, 2020.
Browne, Simone
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
Burns, Karpani.
Coronavirus: The Invisible Enemy behind Enemy Lines
San Francisco Bay View, April 5, 2020.
Childress, Sarah
Craig Haney: Solitary Confinement Is a ‘Tried-and-True’ Torture Device
Frontline, April 22, 2014.
Daniel, Sharon
Public Secrets/Secret Publics
Springerin Magazine, no. 2 (2008).
Daniel, Sharon
The Blindness of Whiteness and the Labour of the Negative
Kunstlicht, Radical Imaginings: Art Practices of/for Justice 40, no. 1–2 (2019): 18–30.
Davis, Angela Y.
Are Prisons Obsolete?
New York: Seven Stories, 2003.
Davis, Angela Y.
Women, Culture & Politics
Reprint Edition. Vintage, 2011.
Davis, Angela Y.
Women, Race, & Class
1st Vintage Books ed Edition. Vintage, 2011.
Dokou, Christina
Vowel Obstruction: (Not) Screamin’ Joy out of ‘Real Pain.’
(Re)Constructing Pain and Joy: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Perspectives. Ed. Chryssoula Lascaratou, Anna Despotopoulou, and Elly Ifantidou. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, 395–413.
Fanon, Frantz
Black Skin, White Masks
Grove Press, 2008
Freire, Paulo
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
30th anniversary ed. New York: Continuum, 2000.
Johnson, Paula, Angela J. Davis, and Joyce A. Logan
Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women In Prison
New York: NYU Press, 2004.
Johnson, Walter
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
King, Robert Hillary, and Terry Kupers
From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King
First Edition. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2008.
Lorde, Audre
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Crossing Press, 2007.
Rideau, Wilbert
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Redemption
Illustrated Edition. New York: Vintage, 2011.
Rothstein, Richard
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
First edition. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.
Sudbury, Julia, ed
Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex
1st Edition. Routledge, 2014.
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