Below are links to resources for teaching about current events in the classroom.
- Ferguson syllabus: http://sociologistsforjustice.org/ferguson-syllabus/
- Race to Equity: http://racetoequity.net/
- Teaching about Ferguson Forum in Feminist Studies: Access the forum now
- Baltimore syllabus:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B_oyOyu_tAwOVq5MY1oJL3orN6ps04O82JxWxnkGpho/preview?pli=1&sle=true - Black Lives Matter syllabus website: http://www.blacklivesmattersyllabus.com
Resources on disparities in criminal justice:
- http://contexts.org/blog/contexts-quicklit-11-recent-sociological-findings-on-race-and-the-criminal-justice-system/
- http://www.madmutualdrift.org/2015/03/ferguson-to-madison-the-arc-completed.html an advocacy piece
- http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-new-estimate-of-killings-by-police-is-way-higher-and-still-too-low/
- http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/The-Gangsters-Of-Ferguson/386893/
- http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/opinion/research-shows-white-privilege-is-real.html?_r=1
- http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_Race_and_Punishment.pdf
- http://www.projectcensored.org/law-enforcement-related-deaths-us/
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/30/black-teens-who-commit-a-few-crimes-go-to-jail-as-often-as-white-teens-who-commit-dozens
- http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/crdc-discipline-snapshot.pdf
- http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-the-justice-system-2013-12
Official Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report on arrest-related deaths
Twitter hashtags
- #FergusonSyllabus
- #TeachFerguson
- #FergusonTeachin
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