Readings and Video
Read the assigned pages in the textbook.
Watch the following videos.
Part
A: Welfare and Wealth
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Textbook: Chapter 8-pp. 205-232
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The Rise of African American Elite
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Links to an external
site.
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This Black Family Secretly Rules the
World
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Links to an external
site.
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Objectives
for Welfare and Wealth
1.    
Ways in which African Americans have been
denied access to the American 
Dream
2.    
The correlation between employment, income,
poverty, and wealth for African
American families.
3.    
The role of Welfare and welfare reform in
shaping African American families.
4.    
Examine and be able to synthesize commentary
from the 2 videos on African 
American Family Wealth
Part
B: African American Families and The Prison Industrial Complex
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Textbook: Chapter 9 -pp. 233 -261
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Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial
Complex: California and Beyond, Davis,
Angela Y. ; Shaylor, Cassandra.
Meridians (Middletown, Conn.), 2020, Vol.19 (S1), 
p.87-111Race Gender and
Prison.Angela Davis.pdf
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Actions
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The Future of Race in America
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Links to an external
site.
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Objectives for The Prison Industrial
Complex
1.    
Examine how incarceration affects the Black
Family.
2.    
Review the relationship between felony records
and employment and other 
rights.
3.    
Look at the rates of incarceration, the
demographics of prisons, and growth
patterns of prisons in the U.S.
4.    
Become familiar with way in which prisons have
become global industrial 
centers
5.    
Identify solutions to incarceration in America.
Assignment:
Part A: Welfare and Wealth
From chapter 8
in the textbook, answer the following questions in at least 50
words each in
separate numbered sentences.
(There is a
total of 2 paragraphs and 3 numbered sentences/paragraphs for this section)
1.    
Two ways that 
Black familes have been denied access to the American Dream 
according to
the textbook.
2.    
According to the textbook, what is the
correllation between employment,
income, poverty, and wealth for African
American families.
3.    
Historically, what has been the role of Welfare
and welfare reform in shaping 
African American families.
In
addition:
Provide a summary for 1 of the videos in Part A
in at least 150 words each.
You must indicate the title of the videos in a
hearder for each.
Part 2:  African American Families and The Prison
Industrial Complex
Provide a summary of the video, The Future of Race in America, in at
least 200 words.
Answer the following 4 questions from
information desseminated in the textbook and the 
article by Angela Davis, Race
Gender, and Prison in at least 50 words each.
1.    
According to our textbook, how does
incarceration affect the Black Family.
2.    
What is
the relationship between felony records and employment and other 
rights for
Black families?
3.    
What does Angela Davis point out regarding the
rise in prisons and 
incarceration?
4.    
According to Davis and others, how is violence
perpetuated against women in 
prisons?
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