Democracy and Inequality: Challenges and Possible Solutions

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 21.03.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Content Objectives
  3. Teaching Strategies
  4. Classroom Activities
  5. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  6. Resources:
  7. Notes

Cause and Effect: Inequality and Activism

Laura Grisham

Published September 2021

Tools for this Unit:

Resources:

Amedee, George. “Movements Left and Right: Tea Party and Occupied Wall Street in the Obama Era.” Race, Gender, & Class 20, no. 3/4 (2013): 33–39.

Baron, James, and Colin Moynihan. “City Reopens Park After Protesters Are Evicted.” New York Times. November 16, 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/nyregion/police-begin-clearing-zuccotti-park-of-protesters.html?hp.

Borders, Lisa. “Inspiring and EMPOWERING Women: The WNBA Leading the Way into the 21st Century.” Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport 28, no. 2 (2018). https://doi.org/10.18060/22566.

Chappell, Bill. “Occupy Wall Street: From a Blog Post to a Movement.” NPR. NPR, October 20, 2011. https://www.npr.org/2011/10/20/141530025/occupy-wall-street-from-a-blog-post-to-a-movement.

Chappell, Bill. “The Landscape for Campaign Finance, 10 Years after Citizens United.” NPR. NPR, January 21, 2020. https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/798252685/the-landscape-for-campaign-finance-10-years-after-citizens-united.

Chilcott, Jane Dunkel. “The Effective Use of Simulations in the Classroom.” Creative Learning Exchange, 1996.

Citizens United at 10: The Consequences for Democracy and Potential Responses by Congress. Serial Number 116-74, before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Justice, one hundred-sixteenth Congress, 2020.

Dahl, Robert A., and Ian Shapiro. On Democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.

Delevoye, Angele. “The WNBA Influenced the Georgia Senate Race, New Research Finds.” Washington Post. November 30, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/30/wnba-influenced-georgia-senate-race-new-research-finds/.

Dixit, Avinash. “Restoring Fun to Game Theory.” The Journal of Economic Education 36, no. 3 (2005): 205–19. https://doi.org/10.3200/jece.36.3.205-219.

Gould-Wartofsky, Michael A. “Chapter 1.” Essay. In The OCCUPIERS: The Making of the 99 PERCENT MOVEMENT, 14–28. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Gregory, Sean. “'We Did That': Inside the WNBA’s Strategy to Support Raphael Warnock—and Help Democrats Win the Senate.” Time Magazine. Time USA, LLC, January 7, 2021. https://time.com/5927075/atlanta-dream-warnock-loeffler/.

GRAETZ MICHAEL J. SHAPIRO, IAN. WOLF at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It. S.l.: HARVARD UNIV PRESS, 2021.

Klarman, Michael J. Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History. New York City, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Levitin, Michael. “The Triumph of Occupy Wall Street.” The Atlantic. June 10, 2015. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/the-triumph-of-occupy-wall-street/395408/.

Manuel-Miranda, Lin. Hamilton. Grand Central Publishing. 2015.

Moynihan, Colin. “Occupy Wall Street Activists File Suit Over Control of Twitter Account.” New York Times, September 17, 2014. Occupy Wall Street Activists File Suit Over Control of Twitter Account.

Sorkin, Andrew Ross. “Occupy Wall Street: A Frenzy That Fizzled.” The New York Times. The New York Times, September 18, 2012. https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/occupy-wall-street-a-frenzy-that-fizzled/?searchResultPosition=1.

Uluorta, Hasmet M. “The Tea Party: An Ethical All-American Performance.” Essay. In Dissent! Refracted Histories, Aesthetics and Cultures of Dissent, 95–116. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2016.

“U.S. Support for Gun Control TOPS 2-1, HIGHEST Ever, Quinnipiac University National POLL FINDS; LET Dreamers Stay, 80 Percent of VOTERS Say: Quinnipiac University Poll.” 2/20/18 - U.S. Support For Gun Control Tops 2-1, Highest Ever, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Let Dreamers Stay, 80 Percent Of Voters Say | Quinnipiac University Poll, February 20, 2018 https://poll.qu.edu/Poll-Release-Legacy?releaseid=2521.

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