Index & Bibliography
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.
Index
- Abjection Levester Williams
- Abolition Maria Gaspar, Prison Renaissance, Ashley Hunt, Hank Willis Thomas, jackie sumell
- Abstraction Patrice Renee Washington, Levester Williams
- Activism Ashley Hunt, Hank Willis Thomas
- Animation Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman, Sonya Clark
- Architecture Ashley Hunt, Maria Gaspar, Sherrill Roland
- Art Institutions
- Museums Dread Scott
- Art Market Ashley Hunt, Hank Willis Thomas
- Black Lives Matter American Artist, Ashley Hunt, Dread Scott
- Black Panther Party Dread Scott, Hank Willis Thomas, Sadie Barnette
- Blackness Sonya Clark, Patrice Renee Washington,
- Central California Women's Facility Sharon Daniel, Ashley Hunt
- Community Maria Gaspar, Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman, jackie sumell
- Court Documents Titus Kaphar and Reginald Betts
- COVID-19 Sharon Daniel, Solitary Garden
- Death Penalty Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman, Solitary Garden
- Declaration of Independence Sonya Clark
- Defund the Police Sharon Daniel, Dread Scott
- Democracy Sonya Clark, Hank Willis Thomas, Dread Scott
- Drawing Sadie Barnette, Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
- Empire Sonya Clark
- Family Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman, Maria Gaspar, Sadie Barnette, Deana Lawson
- Fetishization Levester Williams
- Fingerprints Patrice Renee Washington
- Foundations Sonya Clark
- Framing Ashley Hunt
- Frustration Patrice Renee Washington
- Hair Sonya Clark
- 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
- Joy Hank Willis Thomas
- Landscape Maria Gaspar, Ashley Hunt, jackie sumell
- Language Sonya Clark, Levester Williams
- Materials (Meaning of) Sherrill Roland, Levester Williams, Sonya Clark, Hank Willis Thomas
- Memorial Sadie Barnette, Sanford Biggers
- Mental Health Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
- National Flags Sonya Clark, Sharon Daniel, Dread Scott
- Pedagogy Maria Gaspar
- Performance Sherrill Roland
- Photography Ashley Hunt, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun, Deana Lawson, Sherrill Roland
- Pledge of Allegiance Sharon Daniel
- Poetry Prison Renaissance, Sonya Clark, Titus Kaphar and Reginald Betts
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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 Deana Lawson, Titus Kaphar and Reginald Betts
- Power Redistribution Prison Renaissance
- Predictive Policing American Artist
- Printmaking Dread Scott, Titus Kaphar and Reginald Betts
- Privacy Sherrill Roland
- Protest Hank Willis Thomas
- Racial Categories Sonya Clark
- Racial Profiling American Artist, Maria Gaspar, Dread Scott, Titus Kaphar and Reginald Betts
- Redaction Sadie Barnette, Titus Kaphar and Reginald Betts
- Redemption Ashley Hunt, Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
- Resistance Hank Willis Thomas, Patrice Renee Washington
- Restrictions Sherrill Roland
- Revolution Dread Scott
- Sculpture American Artist, Sanford Biggers, Sonya Clark, Sharon Daniel, jackie sumell, Patrice Renee Washington, Levester Williams,
- Site-Specific Maria Gaspar
- Slavery Dread Scott, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun, Sonya Clark, Hank Willis Thomas
- Sound Installation Prison Renaissance
- Soy Paz, Soy Más Maria Gaspar
- Spectacle Prison Renaissance
- Strength Patrice Renee Washington
- Surveillance Sadie Barnette, American Artist, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun, Dread Scott
- Tar Baby Levester Williams
- Testimony Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
- Textile Sonya Clark
- Underground Scholars Ashley Hunt
- Uniforms Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun,Sonya Clark, Hank Willis Thomas, Sherrill Roland
- 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 Sonya Clark, Maria Gaspar
- White Supremacy Prison Renaissance, Dread Scott, Patrice Renee Washington
- Whiteness Dread Scott
- Wrongful Incarceration Sherrill Roland
Bibliography
- Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press, 2012.
- Berger, Dan, Mariam Kaba, and David Stein. "What Abolitionists Do," Jacobin, August 24, 2017.
- Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. Penguin Books, 1972.
- 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.
- California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. “Budget Information.”
- 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.
- Mirzoeff, Nicholas, How We See the World. 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. 1954. Sand and Foam ; a Book of Aphorisms. New York: Knopf.
- 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.
- Nelson, Rachel. 2020. “Viral Biopolitics.” The Brooklyn Rail. May 6, 2020.
- 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.
- Roy, Arundhati. “The Pandemic Is a Portal.” Financial Times, April 3, 2020.
- Wykstra, Stephanie. “The Case against Solitary Confinement.” Vox, April 17, 2019.
- Allen, Diane Jones. Lost in the Transit Desert: Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form. 1st Edition. London : New York: Routledge, 2017.
- Berger, Dan, Mariam Kaba, and David Stein. "What Abolitionists Do," Jacobin, August 24, 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.
- 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. 2008. Black Skin, White Masks. Grove Press.
- Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 30th anniversary ed. New York: Continuum, 2000.
- Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, and James Kilgore. “The Case for Prison Abolition.” The Marshall Project, June 19, 2019.
- 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.
- Marriott, David. “On Decadence: Bling Bling” #79 (February 2017).
- 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.