Introduction to Africana Studies;Module 5: The Prison Industrial Complex
Module 5: The Prison Industrial Complex
Understanding of the impact of public policy. Readings position the school system and the prison industrial complex as intimately connected and reveal how the prison system operates as a system of social control.
Homework Questions
Responses must be 100+ words each. Be sure to support the claims you make with evidence. You must cite ideas that are not your own and include page numbers where appropriate.Questions that utilize outside/unauthorized sources will not receive credit.
IMPORTANT- PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE QUESTIONS IN YOUR RESPONSE
(Required)
1) What are the three most important ideas that you engaged with in this module? What is one question that remains?
2) Review your responses for Homework 1. What progress do you think you have made on building cultural competence? What is one course-related accomplishment that you are proud of?
(Choose TWO/SKIP ONE question)
3) What, for Crenshaw, are the effects of the doctrine of color blindness? Do you agree that “treating different things the same can generate as much an inequality as treating the same things differently?” Why or why not? (Crenshaw 285).
4) How, according to Alexander, does the prison system operate as a system of racialized social control? In what ways is the war on drugs the new Jim Crow?
5) What, for Davis, is the connection between the school system and the prison industrial complex? To what extent do you agree that whiteness “operates as property?” (Davis 30).
