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Black Lives Matter!: Books

Some of Our Print Books

American apartheid : segregation and the making of the underclass

: American apartheid

E 185.61 .M373 1993 (WO)

United States of incarceration : the criminal justice assault on minorities, the poor, and the mentally ill Criminal justice assault on minorities, the poor, and the mentally ill

United States of incarceration

HV6197.U5 A52 2914 (ML)

The broken ladder : how inequality affects the way we think, live, and di

The broken ladder

HM 821 .P39 2017 (WO)

White privilege and black rights : the injustice of U.S. police racial profiling and homicide

White privilege and black rights

HV7936.R3 Z33 2015 (WO)

Between the world and me

Between the world and me

E 185.615 .C633 2015 (WO)

Chained in silence : Black women and convict labor in the new South

Chained in silence

HV8929.G42 L44 2015 (ML)

Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Slavery by another name

E 185.2 .B545 2009 (WO)

Arrested justice : black women, violence, and America's prison nation

Arrested justice

HV 6626.2 .R57 2012 (CM)

condemnation of blackness : race, crime, and the making of modern urban America

condemnation of blackness

HV6197.U6 M85 2011 (ML)

Without mercy : the stunning true story of race, crime, and corruption in the Deep South

Without mercy

HV9955.G4 B43 2014 (CM,WO)

Punishing race : a continuing American dilemma

Punishing race

HV 9950 .T667 2011 (ML)

The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

The new Jim Crow

HV 9950 .A437 2010 (CM)

Race to incarcerate

Race to incarcerate

HV 9950 .M32 2006 (ML)

Invisible punishment : the collateral consequences of mass imprisonment

Invisible punishment

HV 9950 .I59 2003 (ML)

Ethnicity, race, and crime : perspectives across time and place

Ethnicity, race, and crime

HV9950 .E87 1995 (ML)

Dred Scott's revenge : a legal history of race and freedom in America

Dred Scott's revenge

KF 4755 .N37 2009 (CM,WO)

Willful injustice : a post-O.J. look at Rodney King, American justice, and trial by race

Willful injustice

KF224.K66 D45 1996 (ML)

Book cover

Begin again

E184 .A1 G554 2020 (WO)

cover art

They Can't Kill Us All

HV8141 .L69 2017 (WO)

Some of Our eBooks

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Search the Atlantic Cape and Atlantic County libraries or select campus libraries to find books on your topic. You can further narrow your search at the catalog site

 
 

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Where's the Book? How Do I Get It?

If the location is Atlantic Cape Community College or ML, the book lives in the Spangler Library, on the Mays Landing campus.

If the location is Cape May Campus, the book lives in the library on the CM campus.

If the location is Worthington Center (WO), the book lives in the library on the Worthington Atlantic City campus.

All other locations refer to the Atlantic County public and school libraries.

When looking at the record for a book in the library catalog, the name of the library that owns the book will be found in a table at the bottom of the record, in the first column.

To find where in the library you should look for the book, check the Status column first. This will tell you in which section of the library the book is shelved; if the book is checked out to someone else, you will also see that information.

Next, look at the Call Number column. Here, you'll find the book's address on the shelf.

To find out where in the library to look for a book, check the table at the bottom of the record. Look in the last column, labeled 'status.'

The call number of a book tells you where on the shelves the book can be found. It's like a street address. When looking in the catalog at the record for an item, look in the next-to-last column.

The call number is the book's shelf address. When looking at the catalog record, you'll find this information in a table at the bottom, in the third column from the left.

  • The call numbers used by the Atlantic Cape Libraries are based on the Library of Congress Classification System.You'll notice that they look different from the Dewey Decimal numbers used by the public libraries.
    • Letters represent the main subject of the book.
    • The remainder of the call number narrows the subject and adds information specific to the book, which aids placement on the shelf.
  • There are guides posted around the library to help find a book.

    Please ask a librarian if you need help to navigate the book shelves.

 

To borrow books, use reserve books, laptop computers or equipment in the library you will need to activate your library account. Bring your College ID card to the Circulation Desk at any campus library to activate your account. Your College ID becomes your library card, along with a PIN code that you will choose. You'll use these numbers to get access to your library account, renew books, and request delivery from other libraries in our system.

Id Card with library barcode

You can use your College ID to apply for a Community Account to borrow materials from Richard Stockton University, a library card from the Atlantic City Free Public Library, the Atlantic County Library System and Cape May County libraries.

Reading Lists

Subject headings

Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Race discrimination -- United States
Segregation -- United States -- History
Inner cities -- United States
Prisons and race relations
Blacks -- Segregation.-- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Crimes against
African American prisoners -- Social conditions.
Slavery -- United States -- History.
Lynching
Whites -- United States -- Attitudes -- History.

African Americans -- Social conditions

Credits

This guide was developed by Leslie Murtha, Atlantic Cape Community College Libraries.
Published February 2021.