Annotated Bibliography
Resources for Teachers
MacDonald, Heather. Are Cops Racist? Chicago: Ivan R. Dec, 2003.
Are Cops Racist discusses the myths of racial profiling by giving cases histories of high profile incidents. It tells how to train policeman and identifies America's best urban police force.
Malkin, Michelle. In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror. Washington, D.C.
Malkin's controversial book defends the evacuation and relocation of ethnic Japanese, as well as the internment of enemy aliens, Japanese and non-Japanese alike, during World War II.
Meeks, Kenneth. Driving While Black: highways, shopping malls, taxicabs, and sidewalks: how to fight back if you are a victim of racial profiling. New York; Broadway Books, 2000.
Driving While Black clearly defines the system officially known as CARD (class, age, race, dress) and offers advice about how to handle potentially life-threatening situations with the police, as well as resources for readers who suspect their civil rights have been denied due to racial profiling.
Pampel, Fred C. Library in a book: Racial Profiling. New York: Facts on File, 2004.
Racial Profiling explores the highly charged controversies this issue involves and provides an overview, reference resource, and research guide that will interest students, teachers, librarians, activists, policy makers, participants in the criminal justice system, and members of the public interested in issues of race and crime.
Resources for Students
Meeks, Kenneth. Driving While Black: highways, shopping malls, taxicabs, and sidewalks: how to fight back if you are a victim of racial profiling. New York; Broadway Books, 2000.
This source is especially good for students seeking to learn how to behave properly when stopped by the police.
Pampel, Fred C. Library in a book: Racial Profiling. New York: Facts on File, 2004.
This is a good general source for students researching papers.
In addition, both students and teachers can benefit from the following Internet sources:
Internet Articles
Civil Rights.org. 2002. "Wrong Then Wrong Now: Racial Profiling Before & After
September 11, 2001." Available from http://www.civilrights.org. Accessed May 3, 2005).
A civil rights group puts contemporary racial profiling in historical perspective.
Cole, David and James X. Dempsey, 2002. Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the name of National Security. [online edition]. Available from http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com. Accessed on May 3, 2005.
Two leading legal authorities on civil liberties analyze threats in legislation from the 1990s to the present.
Haddad, William J. 2002. "Impact of the September 11th Attacks on the Freedoms of Muslims and Arabs." Available from http://www.arabbar.org/art-sept11impact.asp. Accessed on August 20, 2005.
A speech by a leader of the Arab-American bar in Illinois detailing how racial and ethnic profiling of Arabs and Muslims has risen since September 11th.
Lee, Chisum 2004. "The Spread of Racial Profiling Since 9-11 Civil Rights Rollback." Available from: http://www.catholicsocialjustice.org, Accessed on May 3, 2005.
A Catholic social justice perspective on racial profiling today.
NYCLU (New York Civil Liberties Union). "Protecting Protest." Available from http:// www.Nrcprotestrights.org/rights-bust.html. Accessed on August 8th, 2005.
Guidelines prepared for protestors at the 2004 Republican National Convention that are useful for all encounters with police.
QuotationsPage.com. Available from http://www.QuotationsPage.com/quote/138.html. Accessed on July 7, 2005.
A site where notable quotes can be found.
Siggins, Peter. 2002. "Racial Profiling in an Age of Terrorism." Available from http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/ethicalperspectives/profiling.html. Accessed on May 3, 2005.
A useful analysis of recent racial profiling practices.
"The USA PATRIOT Act," EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). Available from http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism/20020925_patriot_act.html. Accessed on May 4, 2005.
The full text of the USA Patriot Act.
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