Media and Incarceration
Media and Incarceration
Weeks 5 and 6 are focusing on how the portrayal of Black people as criminals or more likely to be criminals than white people in the media has allow for the unquestioned mass incarceration of black people. This essentially formed the new era of slavery as people are forced to work in prison for almost no wage.
Week 5 Readings:
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Tony Klimek. "Mass Incarceration Destroying Black Lives."
Dorothy Roberts. "The Social and Moral Cost of Mass Incarceration in African American Communities."
Week 6 Readings:
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"The Sentencing Project." The Sentencing Project.
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Heather Ann Thompson. "Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History."
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Loïc Wacquant. "Class, Race & Hyperincarceration in Revanchist America."
Incarceration
Weeks 7 and 8; Pop culture and Media News