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

Tools for this Unit:

Resources for Students and Teachers

Additional Complementary Sources

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

How Children Succeed by Paul Tough

13th: A Conversation with Oprah Winfrey and Ava Duvernay  

Music: Letter to the Free by Common, featuring Bilal; Sound of da Police by KRS-One; Neighbors by J. Cole

Web video: Jay-Z on why the War on Drugs is an epic fail: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/opinion/jay-z-the-war-on-drugs-is-an-epic-fail.html   

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