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Commentary on Recent Lectures : September 4, 2002
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jeanne's commentaries in bright blue.On Tuesday, September 3, Marci Coleman wrote:
Subject: Re:Sept 3, 2002Jeanne,
I really enjoyed today's discussion on Zora Neale Hurston. I have actually never heard of her before but really enjoy reading Alice Walker's pieces. I don't have the name of the book with me, Unruly Women, but I am very interested in reading the book about women who commit crimes. I am a Public Administration major with a double minor in Criminal Justice and Sociology. I am very interested in the Criminal Justice System and can tell that you have a lot of information about the system. I plan on choosing this book as one of my book choices. I also wanted to say something about the term you used on the first class meeting. You explained the term "structurally violent." I thought this was a good way of putting a lot of the injustices of today into one term. I had never actually thought of it like that.I am enrolled in your Sociology of Law course, Moot Court, and Sociology of Women course. I have actually had a hard time getting to a computer because mine was recently broken so I have been forced to use the computer lab.
Marcelyn Coleman
Wow! Lots of information. Yes, I can direct you to material on women and crime. And I'll offer you some choices for books on that issue. That you for identifying your course enrollment with me. And I'll defintiely put up more on structural violence. Just let me catch my breath!
On Wednesday, September 4, LaKisha Miller wrote:
Subject: Jean Michel Basquiat.jpgLaKisha Miller 3932(Graduate) Soc of Law
TR 2:30-3:45, Moot Court W 2:30-3:45thought that you might enjoy this eye candy. Thanks for introducing us. Because of you, I was able to share knowledge of his life with my twelve year old son, while having stumbled across a movie depicting his life on HBO. LaKisha Miller-Afreka2U@aol.com
Jean Michel Basquiat.jpg - nice portrati of Jean Michel, but I'm having trouble transferring it. Nag me if I forget it. We'll get it up for you. jeanne. Meanwhile, try these sites:
- The Wild Child
- Links to sites on Basquiat Some may be old. Haven't updated yet.
This offers another good example of how we tranform discourse through knowledge, through broad general knowledge. In moot court last Spring we talked of Jean Michel Basquiat, and now LaKisha and her son are able to view him from a different perspective, one that means more to them. The strengths of history and biography in demanding recognition, as Maria Pia Lara explains it.
On Wednesday, September 4, Shanell Polk and Saul Gomez wrote:
First of all guys, please tell me where this is coming from. There are probably over two hundred students this semester. Give me a clue as to what this relates to. Yes, I know Soc 367, Sociology of Law. But were you using the text or something on the site, or did these defintions just happen to come to you? jeannecritical theory is a theory that takes race into account and the role it plays in the American legal system . its a direct descendant of the critical legal studies. Put quotes around this last sentence or you're going to be strung up for plagiarism. It's at p. 178 of Arrigo!!!!!You're describing critical race theory. So you're probably in Arrigo. Yep! That's where you are. Chapter 9 of Arrigo.
You're just picking out isolated sentences from Arrigo. Goooood way to get in lots of trouble. Those of us who teach from these texts are likely to recognize some of the constructions, as I just did. And your first sentence is inaccurate, so probably not taken verbatim. At any rate I'm not going to waste time looking for it. You two just made yourselves a prime example of how not to commit plagiarism.
Read the entire section. Then talk through a definition of critical race theory. Critical theory is a social theory that explores what is wrong with our system, and how it might be corrected. Critical race theory explores particularly how race is handled within our system. It explores it in an upfront and personal way and does not condone the silencing so typical of main stream traditional theory and history.
Now, talk this over with others. Work out a simple discussion of a piece of critical race theory and send it to me IN YOUR OWN WORDS, using quotes where you use someone else's words, even your textbook's words.
NO CREDIT for violating rules that can lead you to commit plagiarism.
Now, identify what led you to these last two definitions and clean them up in such a way that no one can ever accuse of plagiarism. I don't have the time tonight to hunt for them. jeanne
social justice deals with the employment that the government has over wars, guns and drugs if they wanted to ban all this they could but the government wants to feel like they have a sense of power. Where from? Quotes needed?
structural violence deals with the way that society looks at violence which for example if someone is in a gang then they feel that they have to go out and kill someone in order to gain their rack in a gang. Where from? Quotes needed?