Black and incarcerated
Budget: $10 – $30 USD
You will be invited to interview someone about their experience,
direct or indirect, with incarceration.
You will be interviewing your cousin, a black male from New York who has been incarcerated.
After your interview, you will write a journalistic, analytical piece about your interviewee, relating the experiences that the interviewee shared with you, and examining those experiences with the economic frameworks -- in reference to "The New John Crow" and the movie "13th".
DO NOT INCLUDE THE WHOLE INTERVIEW IN THE PAPER. ONLY SNIPPETS.
This process will include the ethical considerations related to asking someone about experiences of theirs that may, in the cases of some interviewees, be tales of suffering, and making those experiences an object of your academic analysis.
1. You have the freedom to make up an interview. As long as the interviee is a black male, posing as your cousin.
2. Please use the references listed below.
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8
- you are free to choose your third source.
direct or indirect, with incarceration.
You will be interviewing your cousin, a black male from New York who has been incarcerated.
After your interview, you will write a journalistic, analytical piece about your interviewee, relating the experiences that the interviewee shared with you, and examining those experiences with the economic frameworks -- in reference to "The New John Crow" and the movie "13th".
DO NOT INCLUDE THE WHOLE INTERVIEW IN THE PAPER. ONLY SNIPPETS.
This process will include the ethical considerations related to asking someone about experiences of theirs that may, in the cases of some interviewees, be tales of suffering, and making those experiences an object of your academic analysis.
1. You have the freedom to make up an interview. As long as the interviee is a black male, posing as your cousin.
2. Please use the references listed below.
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8
- you are free to choose your third source.