1) What is the Southern strategy and how did it begin the criminalization of race associated with mass incarceration?
2) What role did political repression play in the militarization of the police?
3) What is postwar racial liberalism and how did it contribute to the beginning of mass incarceration?
4) How has race been pathologized by the discovery of “social problems”?
5) What is the law and order discourse and what are its main tenets?
6) How does the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles illustrate the social, political, economic and geographical conditions that gave rise to the law and order discourse and mass incarceration?
7) How did drugs remake the criminal justice system?
8) How does SWAT demonstrate the militarization of U.S. policing?
9) How did the crack moral panic facilitate the criminalization of race in U.S. cities?
10) In what ways was the war on drugs politically and/or economically motivated? How has the fear of drugs served to mask actual fears of communities of color over the generations? What are some historical examples?
