resources

These are a few of the resources that have informed Idle Crimes & Heavy Work.
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TEXTS

• ​Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South by Talitha LaFlouria
• No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity by Sarah Haley
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
• To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War by Tera W. Hunter
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration int he Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Documentaries

• 13th (full feature available on YouTube)
• Slavery by Another Name (PBS)

Podcasts

• ​A Conversation with Prison Abolitionist Miriame Kaba on The GOTMFV Show
• Ear Hustle
• Archive Atlanta, episodes:
  • "Chattahoochee Brick"
  • "​Black Women in Convict Leasing"
  • "The Almshouse"
  • "Behind Bars"

Organizations (click on each to view their site)

• Equal Justice Initiative
• Critical Resistance
• The Sentencing Project
• Essie Justice Group
• Project NIA
• Prison Policy Initiative