Resources
- Background Information (PPT)
- Subject Reading Guide
- Device Tracking Guide
- Literary/Rhetorical Assignment
Supplemental Readings
- Making freshmen read ‘Between the World and Me’ is a mistake
- Between the World and Me Book Club: Not Trying to Get Into Heaven
- A Caricature of Black Reality
- In ‘Between the World and Me,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates Delivers a Searing Dispatch to His Son
- The Anger of Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates review
- Review: Between the World and Me
- Why Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between The World and Me’ Is Not the Masterpiece We Hoped For
- The Toxic World-View of Ta-Nehisi Coates
Writing Assignment
- Synthesis Writing Information
- American Policing Prompt
- Sources
- There are huge racial disparities in how US police use force
- How Structural Racism is Linked to Higher Rates of Police Violence
- Police Aren’t Targeting and Killing Black Men
- There’s overwhelming evidence that the criminal-justice system is racist. Here’s the proof.
- Why Are So Many Black Americans Killed By Police?
- No racial bias in police shootings, Study by Harvard professor shows
- Black Cops are Just as Likely As White Cops to Bill Black Suspects
- Hard Data, Hollow Protests
- Police Racism: A Search for Answers
- What the Data Really Says about Police and Racial Bias
- 7 Statistics That Show That ‘Systemic Racism’ Doesn’t Exist In Policing
- “Cops Are Racist” Story Line Ignores a Great Many Facts
- Police Officers Are Not Disproportionately Killing Black Men—Here Are the Facts
- Police Shootings: How A Culture Of Racism Can Infect Us All
