Hi Cynthia and FEASTers

Thanks for the chance for us to contribute our suggestions to your class. I have one key suggestion re your proposed content: it's important to recognise that black women are also victimised by police and so I would recommend that you incorporate this into your class. Here is a quick couple of blog posts/media articles to get you started: 

http://www.gradientlair.com/post/95311948888/erasure-black-women-as-state-violence-victims (this one has a strict content use policy- need to contact the author before including in any course materials -http://www.gradientlair.com/content-use-policy ) 

http://mashable.com/2015/05/26/police-brutality-black-women/ 

As for some texts on race/racism and the prison industrial complex, here are my go-to recommendations:

Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete: 
http://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf 

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431

bell hooks, Killing Rage
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3JlNFYKLheUC&redir_esc=y

Hope these suggestions are helpful.

Best
Angela



On 5 Jun 2015, at 17:25, Cynthia Stark <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear FEAST,
I am teaching an intermediate level political philosophy class in the fall and I would like to teach material relating to the recent killings of black male citizens by police officers.   What I have in mind is to teach material on race, racism, mass incarceration, perhaps racial profiling, police brutality and the militarization of the police.  I would be very grateful if people could send syllabi that would be relevant or can suggest particular works that I might consider using.  I am interested in both philosophical and popular works on these topics (to the extent that these can be distinguished).  Also, I welcome suggestions of other topics to include.

Cynthia Stark
University of Utah
Philosophy
215 S. Central Campus Drive, CTIHB 402
Salt Lake City, UT 84112




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