Race, Class, and Punishment

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 18.01.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction and Background
  2. Rationale and Objectives
  3. Teaching Strategies Part 1: Overview for Teaching the Film 13th
  4. Teaching Strategies Part 2: Overview for Teaching Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
  5. Classroom Activities: Rhetorical Strategies and Comparing and Contrasting Narrative Voice
  6. Conclusion: Meditations on the Current State
  7. Resources for Students and Teachers
  8. Annotated Bibliography
  9. Appendix – Teaching Standards
  10. Notes

13th and Locking Up Our Own: Argument, Voice, and Perspective in Two Modern Meditations on Mass Incarceration

Robert McKinnon Schwartz

Published September 2018

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Notes

  1. Alexander, Michelle. “Who We Want to Become: Beyond the New Jim Crow,” On Being, accessed July, 2018, https://onbeing.org/programs/michelle-alexander-who-we-want-to-become-beyond-the-new-jim-crow/.
  2. “13th Ammedment to the U.S. Constitution,” Library of Congress, accessed July, 2018, https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html.
  3. Duvernay, Ava. 13th , directed by Ava Duvernay, 2016: Netflix, documentary film.
  4. Ibid
  5. Ibid
  6. Ibid
  7. Jones, Van, “CNN Profile,” CNN, accessed July, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/profiles/van-jones#about.
  8. Davis, Angela, “Biography,” Biography, accessed July, 2018, https://www.biography.com/people/angela-davis-9267589.
  9. Muhammad, Khalil Gibran, “Biography,” Biography, accessed July, 2018, https://www.biography.com/people/khalil-gibran-muhammad-21116667.
  10. Alexander, Michelle, “About the Author,” The New Jim Crow, accessed July, 2018, http://newjimcrow.com/about-the-author.
  11. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., “Department of African and African-American Studies,” Harvard University, accessed July, 2018, https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/henry-louis-gates-jr.
  12. 13th film
  13. Ibid
  14. Forman, James, Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017). Page 4.
  15. Ibid, 13
  16. Ibid, 45
  17. Ibid, 81
  18. Ibid, 83
  19. Ibid, 84, 104
  20. Ibid, 108
  21. Ibid, 132
  22. Ibid, 147
  23. Ye Hee Lee, Michelle, “Does the United States really have 5 percent of the world’s population and one quarter of the world’s prisoners?” Washington Post, accessed August, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/04/30/does-the-united-states-really-have-five-percent-of-worlds-population-and-one-quarter-of-the-worlds-prisoners/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.225a4ee8b314.
  24. Locking Up Our Own, 162
  25. Ibid, 179
  26. Ibid, 181
  27. “Does the United States really have 5 percent of the world’s population and one quarter of the world’s prisoners?”

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