Objectives and Strategies
The teacher's personal professional objectives for the unit are to define, document and analyze the history of racial profiling in the United States. This will be accomplished 1) by a brief chronological history of racial profiling through a sampling of vignettes including genocide of the Native Americans, the enslavement of African Americans, the internment of Japanese during World War II, the atrocities of the civil rights movement, driving while black, disproportionate crime and war on drug sentencing, and "flying while Arab" during the current war on terrorism; 2) by student debates over the legality of racial profiling, and by examining examples of the unconstitutional violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments and other litigated court cases; 3) by discussing the effectiveness of racial profiling and reviewing the legal exercises undertaken to eliminate its practice in the United States.
The student objectives are for all students to be able to: 1) gain and understand a more complete history of racial profiling in the United States; 2) debate the pros and cons of racial profiling; 3) conduct themselves in an appropriate manner when stopped by the police. These student objectives will be accomplished in part by having students research and writes an essay of three to six pages on racial profiling in the United States that seeks to develop a plan to eliminate its abuses.
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