Race, Class, and Punishment

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 18.01.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Demographics
  2. Rational
  3. The Founding Fathers’ System
  4. The Education System
  5. The Economic System
  6. The Judicial System
  7. Activities: Instructions to Teachers
  8. Dinner and a Movie
  9. Field Trip
  10. Standards
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography

The American Dream,

Sean Cameron Means

Published September 2018

Tools for this Unit:

Bibliography

Adams, Francis and Sanders, Barry. Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in White Man’s Land 1619-2000. New York: Harper Collins, 2003.

Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.

Baldwin, James. “The American Dream.” New York Times, March 7, 1965. https://www.nytimes.com/images/blogs/papercuts/baldwin-and-buckley.pdf.

Burns, Sarah. The Central Park Five. New York: Alfred Knop, 2011.

Cone, James H. Martin and Malcom: A Dream or Nightmare. New York: Obris Books, 1992.

Drinker Bowen, Catherine. Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May- September 1787. New York: Back Bay Books, 1986.

Dye, R. Thomas. “The Rosewood Massacre: History and the Making of Public Policy.” The Public Historian, 19, no. 3 (Summer 1997): 25-39. doi:10.2307/3379554.

Ellsworth, Scott. Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1992.

Flynn, Andrea, Holmberg, Susan R., Warren, Dorian and Wong, Felicia. The Hidden Rules of Race. New York: Cambridge University, 2017.

Forman, James. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. New York: Farrar, Stratus and Giroux, 2017.

Honely, Michael K. To The Promise Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.

Jones, Sabrian, Mauer, Marc and Alexander, Michelle. Race to Incarcerate. New York: The New Press, 2013.

King, Martin Luther, Jr. “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” Speech, Memphis, TN, April 3, 1968. https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/ive-been-mountaintop-address-delivered-bishop-charles-mason-temple.

Messer, Chris M. “The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921: Toward an Integrative Theory of Collective Violence.” Journal of Social History, 44, no. 4 (July 2011): 1217-1232. https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2011.0053.

Meyer, Stephen G. As Long As They Don’t Move Next Door. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.

Orfield, Gary, Ee, Jongyeon, Frankenberg, Erica, and Siegel-Hawley , Genevieve “Brown at 62: School Segregation by Race Poverty and State.” Civil Rights Project (May 16, 2016): 1-9.

https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/brown-at-62-school-segregation-by-race-poverty-and-state/Brown-at-62-final-corrected-2.pdf.

Reardon, Sean F. “School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps.” CEPA Working Paper No. 15-12 (October 2015): 1-34. https://cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/wp15-12v201510.pdf.

“School Fast Facts.” Pennsylvania School Performance Profile. Accessed July 15, 2018. http://www.paschoolperformance.org/Profile/27516.

“The Declaration of Independence.” National Archives. Accessed July 15, 2018. https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration.

“Unemployment in the Pittsburgh Area by County.” Bureau of Labor Statistics. Last modified May 18, 2018. https://www.bls.gov/regions/mid-atlantic/news-release/unemployment_pittsburgh.htm.

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