Your reading response is based on “Part 4: Carceral Institutions and Mass Incarceration,” which includes Michelle Alexander, Ann Ferguson, Angela Davis (text, not videos), Combahee River Collective, and Dorothy Roberts.
Pick one prompt and respond with a clear thesis statement and supporting evidence from 2-3 course readings. First, refer to the “Reading Response Guidelines” and rubric in the course materials, which you must follow.
- Write an analysis of “A Thousand and One” using two other scholars from the course. Pick a specific concept to focus on (you can use something we discussed in class).
- How does racial ideology play a role in producing systems of violence and/or carceral systems? Be specific with particular ideologies.
- Pick 1-2 concepts from the readings and synthesize an argument about how they speak to racial structures and the black experience.
You are required to use at least two course readings. The reading response is testing your engagement with Part 4 on carcerality and mass incarceration. Follow the lists below for what scholars you should use and how.
- Group 1: You need at least one scholar from Part 4: Michelle Alexander, Ann Ferguson, Angela Davis (Are Prisons Obsolete?), Combahee River Collective, and Dorothy Roberts.
- Group 2: Your second scholar can be from Group 1, or the following only: Fields, Crenshaw, Collins, Baldwin (direct quotes only), Abu-Jamal.
I’m using Prompt #2 and Using
Angela Davis (Chapter 5: Prison Industrial Complex),” Davis, Angela Y. Are
Prisons Obsolete? An Open Media Book. (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003, p.
84–104) and Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the
Age of Colorblindness (Introduction Only).