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Federal crack laws, mandatory minimums, and the explosion of mass incarceration
Racially disproportioned laws that target Blacks and poor peoples in America and how this fuels mass incarceration.
Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Black-Asian Relations in the 1990s
Explains how the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and the "model minority" myth contributed to cross-racial tensions between African Americans and Asians in the 1990s. Also discusses productive cross-cultural exchange and possibilities for…
Do your pants hang low
The impact of sagging pants in the 1990s
Boyz N the Hood Movie
1991 movie produced by John Singleton dealing with the reality of growing up in South Central, LA
BoOnDoCkS: The Hybridization of Black male stereotypical identities revealed from an African-centered satirical perspective
The Hybridization of Black male stereotypical identities revealed from an African- centered satirical perspective
Beloved: Reconciliation and Re-memory
Commentary and analysis of the influence of Toni Morrison's novel Beloved on 90s and today.
Because I am a man, I cannot love another man?
Discusses the down low phenomenon of the 1990s and today.
41 Shots...and Many Shots Later: The Police killing of Amadou Diallo and its Aftermath
This source recounts the police killing of Amadou Diallo on February 4, 1999.