Author: Tate
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Building Stories Review
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The Academic Moves that Matter? Not Templates. Writing is a process that balances ideas and structure. In their book They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein try to make this balance in writing easier through the use of templates. They argue that…
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Essay 3 – Revised
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Mass Incarceration and the War on Poverty: the Economic Roots While scholars agree that mass incarceration is a problem in the US today, they debate its origins. Civil Rights lawyer Michelle Alexander points to the civil rights movement as one possible time. She characterizes tough-on-crime legislation as a reaction to…
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Essay 3 Draft
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The Economics of Incarceration There is no question that America has an incarceration problem, with over 2 million people imprisoned by the end of 2006 (Forman 47). One sticking point in the overarching debate is when the policy that leads to the issue actually begins. Lawyer Michelle Alexander points to…
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Literature Review
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In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander primarily points to the War on Drugs, a reaction to the Civil Rights legislation of the 1960s, as the root cause of Mass Incarceration. She argues that discriminatory policies from the War on Drugs greatly disadvantaged African American citizens in the modern era,…
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Topic Proposal & Bibliography
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Revised: 11/13/24 Bryan Stevenson argues for a type of proximity in understanding inequality that we simply do not see in the economic policies of the War on Poverty. Partisan politics caused the economic power horses of the time to take a moderate approach to tackling poverty which gave greater legislative…
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Secondary Source Blueprint (Hinton)
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I. Hinton, Elizabeth. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. Harvard University Press, 2017. II. Identify the thesis of the article or chapter, aka WHAT is its central argument? A. “In full historical context, the policies of the Reagan administration…
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Secondary Source Blueprint (Forman)
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I. Forman, Jr., James, Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow (November 29, 2011). NYU Law Review, April 2012, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 243, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1966018 II. Identify the thesis of the article or chapter, aka WHAT is its central argument?…
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Essay 2 – Revised
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Exit West – An Imperfect Defense In Mohsin Hamid’s 2017 novel Exit West, traveling is of no difficulty for the main characters, Nadia and Saeed. Hamid gives his characters the ability to travel through magic doors in order to escape their nameless war-torn country. Upon their arrival to Mykonos, Marin,…
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Secondary Source Blueprint (Alexander)
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I. Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Introduction. New Press, 2012. II. Identify the thesis of the article or chapter, aka WHAT is its central argument? A. “This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those…
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