Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes
by James Gilligan, M.D.

 

L. A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present
by Josh Sides

 

Fire This Time
by Gerald Horne

 

Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness: The Unforgettable Classic Account of the Watts Riot
by Robert E. Conot

 

Street Wars: Gangs and the Future of Violence
by Tom Hayden

 

Do or Die
by Léon Bing

 

Slipping Into Darkness: A True Story from the American Ghetto
by M. Rutledge McCall

 

Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
by Michael Eric Dyson

 

The 50 Most Asked Questions About Gangs
by T. Rodgers

 

The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance
by R.J. Smith

 

Crips: The Story of the L A Street Gang from 1971-1985
by Donald Bakeer

 

Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America
by Douglas Flamming