The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (1980 to the Present)
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Introduction
In this course, you will choose a topic for your project. Below is a list of approved topics that might interest you, along with resources to help get you started. If you would like to select a different topic, please contact your instructor for approval.
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Topic Choices:
- The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (1980 to the present)
- U.S. History of Eugenics and Sterilization
- Discourses Governing Disability
- Discourses Surrounding Hispanic and Latino Populations
- Deconstructing Anti-Immigrant Narratives
- Constructs of Gender and Sexuality
- Class and Labor History
- What Does a Terrorist Look Like?
- Anti-Asian Discourses
Listed below are some suggested resources on these topics.
The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (1980 to the Present)
- Research Starter
- A Slow Motion Lynching? The War on Drugs, Mass Incarceration, Doing Kimbrough Justice, and a Response to Two Third Circuit Judges
- Racialized Mass Incarceration and the War on Drugs: A Critical Race Theory Appraisal
- Did Mass Incarceration Lead to the Disproportionate Admission of Minorities and Marginal Offenders?
U.S. History of Eugenics and Sterilization
- Research Starter
- Disproportionate Sterilization of Latinos Under California’s Eugenic Sterilization Program: 1920-1945
- Contraception or Eugenics? Sterilization and “Mental Retardation” in the 1970s and 1980s
Discourses Governing Disability
- Research Starter
- Pedagogical Approaches to Challenging the Medical Model of Disability Through Media and Narrative
Discourses Surrounding Hispanic and Latinx Populations
- Research Starter
- Will We Build a Wall: Fear of Mexican/Latino Immigration in U.S. History
- [Un]framing the ‘Bad Woman’: Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and Other Rebels With a Cause
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas
- The Long UC Santa Barbara Chicana/o/x Movement: From El Plan to El Centro, 1969–2019
- Latinx for Whom? Reflections Upon the Linguistic Shaping of Latin American Identities in the United States
Deconstructing Anti-Immigrant Narratives
Constructs of Gender and Identity
- Research Starter
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“I Am Just So Glad You Are Alive”: New Perspectives on Non-Traditional, Non-Conforming, and Transgressive Expressions of Gender, Sexuality, and Race Among African Americans
- You do not need to create a JSTOR account to read this article. Make certain that you are logged in through Southern New Hampshire University and click Continue without an account to access the article.
Class and Labor History
- Research Starter
- White Trash Autoethnography: An Analysis of CRT Fact and Logic Flaws
- The Supreme Court on Unions: Why Labor Law Is Failing American Workers
- Reconsidering Southern Labor History : Race, Class, and Power, Section 3
- On Gender, Labor, and Inequality, Chapter 9 “The Macrosociology of Paid Domestic Labor”
What Does a Terrorist Look Like?
- Research Starter
- Terrorists Are Always Muslim but Never White: At the Intersection of Critical Race Theory and Propaganda
Anti-Asian Discourses
- Research Starter
- When “Model Minorities” Become “Yellow Peril”—Othering and the Racialization of Asian Americans in the COVID‐19 Pandemic
Native American Histories and Representation
- Absence Makes the Heart Grow Colder: The Harmful Nature of Invisibility of Contemporary American Indians
- Mainstreaming Countermemory: Tracing Marginalized Narratives Through Media Representations and Community-Engaged Memory Work
- Misrepresentation and Silence in United States History Textbooks
Ethnic Studies Movements and K–12 Implementation
- A New Era for Ethnic Studies: Hearing from Early-Career Educators
- Where Are We Now and How Do We Move Forward?: Voices of Asian American and Migrant Teachers on the K-12 Ethnic Studies Movement
- Ethnic Studies Programs in America: Exploring the Past to Understand Today’s Debates
