NEIU JUST 202 Justice and Inequality
NEIU Spring 2010
JUST-202 Justice and Inequality
Instructor-June Terpstra, PhD
Web: juneterpstra.com
The course provides an analysis of race, class, gender, and related inequalities in the context of political economy in the United States. The course also focuses on consequent biases in criminal justice and the intersectional nature of discrimination in the delivery of justice. Includes identifying strategies for reducing these injustices. Prereq: JUST 101 or consent of Instructor.
Course Requirements:
Class attendance and participation= 200 pts
Read and response weekly papers= 300 points
Mid-term Book Report = 100 pts
Final Project- Annotated Bibliography. FOX news and Wikipedia are not credible academic sources.
Final Project Outline = 100
FINAL Research Project = 250 points
Total points = 1000
FINAL PRESENTATION: You are to present a 15-20 minute power point presentation or a 10 page paper ( with instructor's approval) covering a topic of inequalities and the reforms, resistance and revolutionary strategies that people, groups or movements have implemented to address the inequalities and injustices. Here you are to ask, what those seeking social change do and who benefits from reforms, revisions or revolutions?
TENTATIVE SYLLABUS
Week 1 Colonization, Race and Class
Course Assignment
READ AND RESPOND
Five Hundred Years of Injustice at http://ili.nativeweb.org/sdrm_art.html
MOVING ONWARD: From Racial Division to Class Unity By Brooke Heagerty and Nelson Peery: All Chapters!
http://www.speakersforanewamerica.com/Moving%20Onward.php
2. Write a 2-3 page reflexive response on this week's texts examining your responses to claims presented (Due Sunday).
Week 2 The Constitution, Bill of Rights and Rule of Law
Course Assignment
1. Read and Respond
The US Constitution: http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
"Cracks in the Constitution" A Review By Stephen Lendman http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18143.htm
In class film--. The Trap by Adam Curtis
http://freedocumentaries.org/theatre.php?filmid=152&id=1000&wh=1000x720
Write a 2-3 page reflexive response on this week's texts and film examining your responses to claims presented (Due Sunday).
Week 3 Economic Institutions-Banks
1. Read and Respond
How the Federal Reserve Runs the US by Stephen Lendman
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Stephen_Lendman/Federal_Reserve.html
For the Love of Money by David C. Korton
http://www.davidkorten.org/loveofmoney
"The Secret History of the American Empire" in
Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption
Interview with John Perkins http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2007/06/secret-history-of-american-empire.html
Choose a final topic to research on structural inequalities that are embedded in law, policies, practices and media such as racism in prisons, torture, illegal wars, violence against women, discrimination against Muslims, criminalizing the poor, and present day efforts by a group and/or an individual to change these laws, policies and practices.
Write a 2-3 page reflexive response on this week's texts examining your responses to claims presented (Due Sunday).
Week 4 Economic Collapse
Course Assignments
1. Read and Watch
Stock Market Brushfire; Will there be a run on the banks? By Mike Whitney
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18164.htm
The Joyride That Was The American Empire By Carolyn Baker
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18169.htm
Zeitgeist Addendum II in class http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKX9TWRyfs
Write a 2-3 page reflexive response on this week's texts and film examining your responses to claims presented (Due Sunday).
Week 5: Police and Law Enforcement
Course Assignments
1. Read
Police History http://www.realpolice.net/police-history.shtml
Habeas Corpus Time Line: http://www.restorehabeascorpus.org/
A Jones for Justice Unbalanced Justice And Wannabe Fascists
by Dr. John Calvin Jones, PhD, JD http://www.blackcommentator.com/230/230_jones_for_justice_unbalanced_justice_wannabe_fascists.html
Instructors PPT on Police and Prisons
2. Write a 2-3 page reflexive response on this week's texts and presentation examining your responses to claims presented (Due Sunday).
Week 6: The Military Industrial Complex
Course Assignments
1. Read and Watch
Structured Cruelty: Learning to Be a Lean, Mean Killing Machine http://www.politicsandcurrentaffairs.co.uk/Forum/606188-post1.html
Martin Smith Support our Troops" or Support the Resistance?
by Marta Rodriguez at http://www.onepalestine.org/
Brutal Bullies by Paul J. Balles http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1014/81/
Why We Fight at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9219858826421983682&hl=en
Submit an annotated bibliography on your final topic and group or individual (Due Saturday)
Write a 2-3 page reflexive response on this week's texts and presentation examining your responses to claims presented (Due Sunday).
Week 7 Police Codes of Ethics, Just War Principles and Human Rights Declarations
Course Assignments
Read and Respond
Law Enforcement Code of Ethics http://www.co.whatcom.wa.us/sheriff/ethics.jsp
Principles of Just War http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pol116/justwar.htm
The Declaration of Human Rights http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Write a 2-3 page reflexive response on this week's texts and presentation examining your responses to claims presented (Due Sunday).
Week 8: Race, Gender, Class and Media
Course Assignments
1. Read and view
Singing Soprano, While Dissin' the Bass: America's White Thug Love & Ethnically Acceptable Violence by Dr. Edward Rhymes
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=248&Itemid=33
Roots of Oppression by Jacob Holdt at http://www.american-pictures.com/roots/index.htm
Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6604775898578139565
2. Submit midterm outline for the final project using the outline format provided in Course documents on Blackboard or my website. (Due Saturday).
WEEK 9 Violence against Women and children
Course Assignments
1. Read and View
Violence Against Women in the USA http://www.now.org/issues/violence/stats.html
Facts & Figures on Violence Against Women
http://www.unifem.org/campaigns/vaw/facts_figures.php
Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in War
Instructors PPT-in class
Solutions Project: In an 800-1000 word essay summarize three programs for women and girls you found on the web providing the links to the programs. Explain why you think each program may or may not be effective in accomplishing their stated aims.
Week 10 Historical and Contemporary Juvenile Justice Procedures
Course Assignments
1. Read
The History of Juvenile Justice
http://www.abanet.org/publiced/features/DYJpart1.pdf
Guide for Restorative Justice
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/pubs/implementing/balanced.html
2. In an 800-1000 word essay describe the major differences between the restorative justice systems and the present juvenile justice system? Given the differences which do you think actually benefits youth and society? Explain your answer. Remember to cite sources with-in the text and in a reference section at the end of the paper.
WEEK 11 Immigration
Course Assignments
Read
IMMIGRATION & UNIFICATION Part 1 and 2 by Stan Goff
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/041306_immigration_unification.shtml
http://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/041906_immigration_unification_part2.shtml
US-Latin American Relations: Measuring The Rise or Fall of US Power By James Petras http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15464.htm
Immigration Myths and Facts at http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights/immigration-myths-and-facts.
Assignment: Due Day 7
Write an 800-1000 word position statement defending present day legislation and efforts to build walls and limit immigration or to oppose present day legislation and efforts to limit immigration. Use evidence to support your claims and cite sources within the text and at the end of the paper in a reference section.
Week 12 Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Globalization
Course Assignments
1. Read and Watch
Fairy tales from the Evil Empire http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/686.html
We by Arundhiti Roy http://freedocumentaries.org/theatre.php?filmID=112
Peace And The New Corporate Liberation Theology By Arundhati Roy
http://www.countercurrents.org/roy041104.htm
Use this week's material as sources for your final power point presentation.
Week's 13-15 Final Project Presentations
1. FINAL PRESENTATION: You are to present a 15-20 minute power point presentation or a 10 page paper ( with instructor's approval) covering a topic of inequalities and the reforms, resistance and revolutionary strategies that people, groups or movements have implemented to address the inequalities and injustices. Here you are to ask, what those seeking social change do and who benefits from reforms, revisions or revolutions?
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