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Books:

• Greenky, Lynn. When Freedom Speaks: The Boundaries and Boundlessness of our First Amendment Rights. Brandeis University Press, 2022.
• Lewis, Anthony. Freedom for the Thought We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment. Basic Books, 2010.

Websites:

• Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE): FIRE is one of the country's most prominent advocacy organizations focused on free speech in general, and speech on campus in particular.
• The Anti-Defamation League (ADL): The ADL is an advocacy organization that focuses on addressing hate and anti-semitism.
• The United Nations Strategic Plan to address hate speech worldwide. In 2019, the UN focused on strategies to combat hate speech worldwide, recognizing a universal increase in hate speech as well as the fact that hate speech often leads to hate crimes and acts of violence.

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Films:

• "The Facebook Dilemma.” Frontline, produced by James Jacoby, Anya Bourg, Dana Priest, and Megan Robertson, producers, PBS, October 29, December 11, and October 30, 2018.
• Orlowski, Jeff, director. The Social Dilemma. Exposure Labs, Argent Pictures, Agent Pictures, The Space Program, 2020.

Books:

• Fisher, Max. The Chaos Machine: The inside story of how social media rewired our minds and our world. Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
• Hübscher, Monika and Sabine von Mering, editors. Antisemitism on Social Media. Routledge, 2022.
• Lanier, Jaron. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. Henry Holt and Company, 2018.
• Williams, Matthew. The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it. Faber & Faber, 2021.

From the presentation by Janet McIntosh

PowerPoint presentation

Davis, Angela Y. Are Prisons Obsolete? Seven Stories Press, 2003. New York.

Lepore, Jill. "The Invention of the Police." The New Yorker, 20 July 2020.

Go, Julian. Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US. Oxford University Press, 2023.

"Do Not Resist". Directed by Craig Atkinson, 2016. Brandeis Library website.

Ralph, Laurence. The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence. University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Fassin, Didier. Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing. Polity Press, 2013.

Brooks, Rosa. Tangled up in Blue: Policing the American City. Penguin Random House, 2021.

Van Maanen, John. "The Asshole." Policing: A View from the Street, edited by Peter K. Manning and John Van Maanen, 1978, pp. 221-237.