Category: Assignments

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,…

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…

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…

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?…

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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Throughout the magical realism trope, magical elements have often been used to advocate for political or social change in a modern society. In his 2017 novel, Exit West, Mohsin Hamid uses “magic doors” to transport characters to new places on Earth, many of which are escaping crisis or war, including…

I. Goyal, Yogita. ““We Are All Migrants”: The Refugee Novel and the Claims of Universalism.” MFS Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 66 no. 2, 2020, p. 239-259. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2020.0019. II. Identify the thesis of the article or chapter, aka WHAT is its central argument?A. “In this essay, I draw on…

The Migrant as Colonist: Dystopia and Apocalypse in the Literature of Mass Migration.” ASAP/Journal, vol. 3 no. 3, 2018, p. 653-677. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/asa.2018.0043. II. Identify the thesis of the article or chapter, aka WHAT is its central argument?A. “British and French migrant dystopias illustrate the particular anxiety that results…

Pencils or Pens? The age old debate of pencils and pens has survived generations. Firm believers in pens hold that they have less friction and are altogether a smoother item to write with. This smoothness leads the user to less hand pain and overall a greater stamina to write on…