Class Agenda 5.23

1. Announcements
Post-conference attendance issues will likely result in lower grade
Students with more than four hours missed must email paragraph of explanation by end of term; this will help me figure out your ability to pass and assign grades, and to defend those grades to you, the department, and myself
June 1 deadline approaching- time management this weekend necessary
Video editing responsibilities must be claimed by end of day today


2. Review of blogs
Diana
Eddie
John
Jonathan
Nadira

3. Chinese Girl - discussion

a. Who published this novel?
b. Closing thoughts?

4. The New Jim Crow
 Jarvious Cotton
labeled a felon (2)
The Drug War (3)
House I Live In

CIA (6)
drug use (7)
social control (7) (8)
choose punishment (7)
create crime (8)
Sentencing Project (8)
mass incarceration (11)
racial caste (12)
class (13) / mobility
undercaste (13)

black exceptionalism (14)
racial indifference (14)
racialized systems (14)

5. The Panama Deception