See www.spirobolos.com for links and classroom materials. This is an unabridged version of our presentation that you can use in the classroom. It includes strategies for talking to students about race, as well as a full array of statistics on mass incarceration.

1. “From the Old to
the New Jim Crow”
POLITICALLY
ENGAGING
STUDENTS
ON RACE

4. 1) Take one minute and reveal
something of yourself to
your partner that will “lower
the waterline” on the iceberg.

5. 2) What is your racial identity?
What advantages or disadvantages do
you associate with your racial identity?

7. 1) Tell a humorous or unusual
story about a family member.

8. 2) Tell a humorous or unusual
story about someone from
your neighborhood.

9. 3) Describe your neighborhood,
including your favorite places.

10. 4) What advantages do you
think you have living in your
neighborhood?

11. 5) What advantages do you
think a student would have
living in an urban
environment?

12. 6) What advantages do you
think a student would have
living in an suburban
environment?

13. 7) What advantages do you
think a student would have
living in an rural
environment?

14. 8) How would you describe your
own racial identity and the
advantages or disadvantages
that come with it? Be precise.

15. The “Old” Jim Crow

16. The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration
in the Age of Colorblindness

18. Michelle Alexander at Northwestern University

19. Factors Influencing INEQUALITY

20. 1. My parents and grandparents were
able to purchase or rent housing in
any neighborhood they could afford.

21. 2. I grew up in a home owned by my
parents.

22. 3. I live in a safe neighborhood and
attend(ed) good schools.

23. 4. I live in a neighborhood where most
residents own their own homes.

24. 5. I have a savings account, stocks or
bonds that were given to me by
parents or relatives.

25. 6. I can tap my parents’ resources to
go to college.

26. 7. I can tap my parents’ resources to
buy a house.

27. 8. In the future, I’ll be able to get help
from my parents or other relatives
and “weather the storm” if I lose my
job or otherwise run into trouble.

28. 9. If I get into trouble with the law for
the first time, I can be pretty sure
the police and the DA (District
Attorney) will be lenient with me.

29. 10. I don’t have to worry about helping
my parents out when they retire.

30. 11. I never think twice about calling the
police when trouble in my
neighborhood occurs.

31. 12. I stand to inherit a tidy sum of
money when my parents or other
relatives pass away.

33. VIDEO: “White Girl to be Tried
as a Black Man” (The Onion)

34. “Incarceration by the Numbers”

39. 1970 - 2000

40. The War on Drugs

64. Who’s the target?
What’s the “low-hanging fruit”?

67. #Ferguson

68. Opportunity costs

69. VIDEO: “The Beast”

71. MUSIC VIDEO: “The Prison-
Industrial Complex”

72. HOMEWORK: “The Prison-
Industrial Complex”

73. The New Jim Crow…
from the Old Jim Crow

74. Thomas
Dartmouth
“Daddy”
Rice

75. Minstrelsy is Appropriation

81. First on de heel tap, den on the toe
Every time I wheel about I jump Jim Crow
Wheel about, and turn about en do j’s so.
And every time I wheel about, I jump Jim Crow.

82. Jim Crow “Country” Act

85. Jim Crow “Dandy” Act

89. Bert Williams

90. Bert WilliamsBert Williams

91. “[The mask is] a
great protection….
I shuffle onto the
stage, not as myself,
but as a lazy slow-
going negro.”

95. We wear the mask
that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks
and shades our eyes.
– Dunbar (1896) -
“We Wear
the Mask”

96. Bronx Zoo,
1906

97. Jack Johnson, 1908

98. W.E.B. DuBois,
The Souls of Black Folk

105. Road to colorblindness?

106. Tyler Perry vs Spike Lee
Lee called Perry’s work “minstrelsy”

107. Tyler Perry vs Spike Lee
Lee called Perry’s work “minstrelsy”

112. Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)

113. Kendrick Lamar,
“Mortal Man”

114. “…I don’t think America know that.
I think American think we was just playing
and it’s gonna be some more playing but it
ain’t gonna be no playing.
It’s gonna be murder, you know what I’m
saying, it’s gonna be like Nat Turner, 1831,
up end this muthaf***a. You know what
I’m saying, it’s gonna happen.”
“That's crazy, man.”

115. “The Caterpillar Metaphor”

116. “When trapped inside these walls, certain ideas start to
take roots, such as going home, and bringing back new
concepts to this mad city.
The result? Wings begin to emerge,
breaking the cycle
of feeling stagnant.
Finally free, the butterfly sheds light on situations that the
caterpillar never considered, ending the internal struggle.
Although the butterfly and caterpillar are completely
different, they are one and the same.”

117. Wednesday, August 13th, 2014

118. “I wanted to come out and help bring
this community back together. And
with me being older, I wanted to set
an example and inspire leadership to
the youth…” – Anthony Clark

119. Ariel Elliott, 6, of Ferguson: Thursday, August 14th, 2014

121. “bushwick history lesson”

122. I didn’t just appear one day
I didn’t just wake up and know how to write my name.
I keep writing, knowing now
that I was a long time coming.