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Week 1: Readings

Introduction to course, working concepts, Part 1 and Part 2

Pedagogy of the Oppressed (chapter 2)
Freire, P. (2000). Pedagogy of the oppressed (30th anniversary ed.). New York: Continuum.

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, 1st Edition. Moorpark, CA: Cram101 Inc., [2013], pages 42-78
Latina/Os in the United States.
Rodríguez, Havid́́án, Rogelio Saenz, and Cecilia Menjívar. Latina/Os in the United States. New York: Springer, 2008: Theoretical and Methodological Issues of Latina/o Research, Nestor Rodríguez, pages 3-18

The New Jim Crow (introduction)
Alexander, M. (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. The New Press, Chapters 1-4.
The New Jim Crow (chapter 1)
Alexander, M. (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. The New Press.
The New Jim Crow (chapter 2)
Alexander, M. (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. The New Press.
The New Jim Crow (chapter 3)
Alexander, M. (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. The New Press.
The New Jim Crow (chapter 4)
Alexander, M. (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. The New Press

Report of The Sentencing Projectto the United NationsHuman Rights Committee
Sentencing Project (2013). Report of the sentencing project to the united nations human rights committee regarding racial disparities in the united states criminal justice system

Quote from Desmound Tutu, Illustration by Alice Skinner,