BOOKS
Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023
Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022
First Strike: Educational Enclosures of Black Los Angeles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
A Collaborative Experiment in Building Anti-Carceral Pedagogies. Ethnic Studies Review, 45 (1 & 2), 53-61, 2022. Vaught, Sabina; Sojoyner, Damien; Wun, Connie
The Cost of Freedom: The Violent Exploitation of Black Labor as Essential to Nation Building in Jamaica and the United States of America. Kalfou, 8 (1 & 2), 67-84, 2021. Levy, Janelle; Sojoyner, Damien
You Are Going to Get Us Killed: Fugitive Archival Practice and the Carceral State. American Anthropologist, 123 (3), 658-670, 2021
Another Life is Possible: Black Fugitivity and Enclosed Places. Cultural Anthropology, 32 (4), 514-536, 2017
Black Radicals Make for Bad Citizens: Undoing the Myth of the School to Prison Pipeline. Berkeley Review of Education, 4(2), 241-263, 2013
Criminals, Planters and Corporate Capitalists: The Case of Public Education in Los Angeles. Black California Dreamin’, 1(1), 107-126, 2012
Masculinity Lockdown: The Formation of Black Masculinity in a California Public High School. Transforming Anthropology, 20(1), 5-16, 2012
Enclosures Abound: Black Cultural Autonomy, Prison Regime and Public Education. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 13(3), 349 – 365, 2010
EDITED VOLUMES
Incarceration. In Edwards, E.; Ferguson, R.; Ogbar, O.G. (Eds.) Keywords in African American Studies. New York, United States: NYU Press. 2018
Dissonance in Time: (Un)Making and (Re)Mapping of Blackness. In Futures of Black Radicalism. Gaye Teresa Johnson and Alex Lubin. London and New York: Verso Press. 2017
Changing the Lens. In From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline.
Reality is Stronger than Fiction. In Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections on Publicly Active Graduate Education. Syracuse: The Graduate School Press, Syracuse University. 2012
Voices From the Collective. With Cedric Robinson. In Downtown Blues: A Skid Row Reader. Christina Heatherton, Jordan Camp, editors. Southern California Library. 2010
BOOK CHAPTERS
Sojoyner, D.M., Willoughby-Herard, T (2020). Unhushable Wit: Pedagogy, Laughter, and Joy in the classrooms of Cedric Robinson (Preface). In Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. 3rd edition.
Robinson, C., Schnyder, D. M. (2011). Voices From the Collective. In Downtown Blues: A Skid Row Reader (29-33). Los Angeles/California, United States of America: Southern California Library.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of An Anthropology of Marxism. Current Anthropology, 61 (3), 389-390, 2020
With Intent? The Malicious Consequences of Prison – A collective review of The New Jim Crow, Children of the Prison Boom, and Disrupted Childhoods. Women Studies Quarterly. 43(1&2), 299-303, 2015
Review of Right to be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies by Erica R. Meiners. Anthropology and Education Quarterly. 41(1), 118-119, 2010
BLOG POSTS
Enclosure-Based Rhetoric and Fundamentals Behind the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Damien Sojoyner. University of Minnesota Press Blog.
Keywords in Black Protest: A(n Anti-)Vocabulary. Shana Redmond and Damien Sojoyner. Truthout.
Beyond Police Violence: A Conversation on Antiblackness, #BlackLivesMatter, #WeChargeGenocide and the Challenge to Educators. Connie Wun and Damien Sojoyner. Berkley Review of Education.