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An Introduction to Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow Instructional VideoAn Introduction to Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow Instructional Video
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Macat
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9th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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Media Length
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An Introduction to Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow

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Is the War on Drugs responsible for the inordinate number of black Americans sent to prison for non-violent drug offensives? That's MIchelle Alexander's contention in her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Introduce class members to Alexander with Macat's brief analysis of her work.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

jim crow laws, racism, discrimination, sociology, the civil rights movement, drug abuse, drugs

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Have groups research and collect statistics that support or challenge Alexander's premise
  • Review the Jim Crow laws before showing the video

Classroom Considerations

  • Make sure that viewers understand that the military example is hypotheical and not in fact true of the military
  • From a longer playlist about the greatest ideas in history
  • This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

  • The lack of statistics in the video encourages viewers to research and find data that either supports or challenges Alexander's thesis

Cons

  • No statistics are provided

Common Core

SL.9-10.3 SL.11-12.3

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