Reading Sequences — Readings for Writers

Crime and Punishment in American Society

1. How to Really End Mass Incarceration

2. What Can the US Do About Mass Incarceration

3. Unlock ‘Em Up

4. Why Are So Many Americans In Prison? A Provocative New Theory

5. A National Cry for Criminal Justice Reform

6. Beyond the Prison Bubble

7. Defusing Violence (no essay linked here)

8. Life Beyond Bars-One Man's Journey From Prison to College

9. Tackling Mass Incarceration

10. How a Book Club Is Helping to Keep Ex-Offenders From Going back to Jail

11. Heroin Takes Over a House and a Mom

12. Myths of Mass Incarceration

13. Larry Krasner's Campaign to End Mass Incarceration

14. Definition of Violent Crime

15. Can Criminal Justice Reform Survive a Wave of Violent Crime

16. Criminals and Their Apologists

How Do We Make Up For Past Wrongs? The Debate About Reparations

1. What are reparations?

2. The Story Behind 40 Acres and a Mule

3. W.T Sherman's Special Field Order 15, aka 40 Acres and a Mule Law

4. Brief History of US Reparation Attempts

5. Should Reparations Go to Black Immigrants

6. Black Americans and White Americans Disagree About Reparations

7. Black Americans Not Enthusiastic About Reparations Yet

8. Two Black Writers Debate Reparations

9. Native Americans Call for Reparations

10. Why Native Americans Don't Want Reparations

11. Possible Model for Reparations

12. How to Make Reparations Work

Supplemental Resource: A Timeline of All Reparations Made by the US Government

Corporate People

1. How Did Corporations Become People? (Audio with Transcript)

2. The Legal Evolution of Corporations

3. Corporations Are People is a Real Legal Concept

4. The Fourteenth Amendment and Corporate Personhood

5. Corporations are People Is a Lie

6. A Liberal Case For Why Corporations are People

7. Big Business and Corporate Speech Rights

8. Citizens United Explained

9. Super PACS and Dark Money

10. Citizens United Had a Devastating Impact on Politics

11. Corporate Speech (video and text)

12. The Case Against Corporate Speech

13. How to Counter Corporate Speech

14. If Corporations Can Speak Then They Can Speak Freely

Language Matters

1. Campus Speech Codes: Pros and Cons

2. Controls On Hate Speech are Not Censorship

3. Speech Codes Off Campus (response to #2, above)

4. AAUP Statement on Campus Speech Codes

5. Evaluating Hate Speech Codes

6. Stanford Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative

7. Update on Stanford Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative

8. Stanford Pulls Harmful Language List

9. A Guide to Gender Identity and Pronouns

10. Why Gender Pronouns Matter

11. Why Inclusive Language Matters

Supplemental Resource: APA Inclusive Language Guidelines

12. Inclusive Language Risks Dehumanizing Women

13. Inclusive or Alienating: The Language Wars Go On