Contents
- 1 Module overview
- 2 Assignments
- 3 Lesson 2.2: Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow”
- 3.1 WATCH – Video Intro – Part 1
- 3.2 READ – Reading 2.2 – M. Alexander, “The New Jim Crow” – Part 1
- 3.3 COMPLETE – Self-assessment quiz #1
- 3.4 WATCH – Video overview – part 2
- 3.5 READ – Reading 2.3 – M. Alexander, “The New Jim crow” – Part 2
- 3.6 COMPLETE – Self-assessment quiz #2
- 3.7 COMPLETE – Discussion Board 2 – on the New Jim Crow
- 3.8 WRITE and UPLOAD – Response Paper 2
- 4 WRITE – Response Paper for Module 2
- 5 WATCH – Module 2 summary video
Module overview
By the end of this module, you will:
– become familiar with Michelle Alexander’s arguments about the “New Jim Crow”.
– have a basic working knowledge of fundamental political concepts, such as: race, state, power, ideology, and how they intersect in everyday life
– Identify key ideas across several readings and assigned materials
– critically analyze assigned text and video material
Assignments
All assignments will always be due at the end of the week they were assigned – by Sunday midnight (unless otherwise specified), at 11:59pm. Read the description, then click on the title of the assignment to open it. You can navigate back to this page by using the navigation buttons at the top of the page, or by clicking the back button on your web browser.
Lesson 2.2: Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow”
In this lesson, we will begin our study of American politics by analyzing Michelle Alexander’s key arguments from her influential book The New Jim Crow. Again, I’d like to remind you to do the lesson by going all of the assignments in-order, chronologically, from top to bottom.
WATCH – Video Intro – Part 1
In this video, I give a general intro to the M. Alexander readings, while focusing on the first reading:
READ – Reading 2.2 – M. Alexander, “The New Jim Crow” – Part 1
COMPLETE – Self-assessment quiz #1
Let’s re-read the excerpt that you annotated in Lesson 1. This time, after you read the text, press the button below and take the self-assessment to review your understanding of M. Alexander’s basic arguments made in that excerpt:
WATCH – Video overview – part 2
READ – Reading 2.3 – M. Alexander, “The New Jim crow” – Part 2
After reading and annotating the excerpt, take the self-assessment quiz:
COMPLETE – Self-assessment quiz #2
COMPLETE – Discussion Board 2 – on the New Jim Crow
Let’s head over to the discussion boards:
And here’s part two of Discussion Board 2:
WRITE and UPLOAD – Response Paper 2
Answer the following question in your Response Paper for Module 2:
- What surprised your about the arguments M. Alexander is making?
WRITE – Response Paper for Module 2
Upload your response paper by clicking the following link: https://www.dropbox.com/request/cEAPQilNtqfWXHlIi13I
WATCH – Module 2 summary video
In this video, I summarize some of the key points I’d like to emphasize in the material covered in Module 2. This is a very useful video to watch when preparing for the exam:
