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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Annotated Bibliography

Alexander, Michelle. “About the Author.” The New Jim Crow. Accessed July, 2018. http://newjimcrow.com/about-the-author. Profile of Michelle Alexander.

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/. Important for relevant opinions in an interview with Michelle Alexander, as an interviewee in 13th.

Davis, Angela. “Biography.” Biography. Accessed July, 2018. https://www.biography.com/people/angela-davis-9267589. Profile of Angela Davis.

Duvernay, Ava. 13th . Directed by Ava Duvernay. 2016: Netflix, documentary film. One of the two texts used as a basis for this unit.

Forman, James, Jr. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. One of the two texts used as a basis for this unit.

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. Profile of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Jones, Van. “CNN Profile.” CNN. Accessed July, 2018. https://www.cnn.com/profiles/van-jones#about. Profile of Van Jones.

Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. “Biography.” Biography. Accessed July, 2018. https://www.biography.com/people/khalil-gibran-muhammad-21116667. Profile of Khalil Gibran Muhammad.

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. Valuable fact check for the statistic itself and also to teach students about checking sources.

“13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.” Library of Congress, accessed July, 2018. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html. Text of the 13th amendment.  

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