April 5: The New Jim Crow and The Movement for Black Lives

Course: A History of People of Color in the US, Spring 2018
Background info on Ferguson and the movement for black lives here.
Required Readings: Selections from Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow (Course Reader)
  • http://www.tolerance.org/sites/default/files/general/Jim%20Crow%20as%20a%20Form%20of%20Racialized%20Social%20Control.pdf
  • http://www.tolerance.org/sites/default/files/general/The%20Color%20of%20Justice.pdf
  • http://www.tolerance.org/sites/default/files/general/The%20Color%20of%20Justice.pdfhttp://www.tolerance.org/sites/default/files/general/The%20New%20Jim%20Crow.pdf
View in class: American Denial
More info:

4/10/2018 event: Victories from Inside Out: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/americas-racial-terrorism-silence-condemned-us/