Please start watching the documentary 13th and do the quiz. Below are five questions to answer for the first quiz
two points for each question. You must answer each question thoroughly. Type your answers due in class on Monday, October 19, 2022.
Reflection Questions:
1. How did you feel after watching 13th? Did you feel helpless, inspired, stirred to action, or a combination of all three? Do you think the message of the film was ultimately hopeful? Why or why not?
2. How do you think media and popular culture representations of Black Americans, particularly Black men, have contributed to a climate of white fear and anxiety? How has that affected tough-on-crime policies?
3. Before watching this documentary, were you aware that both political parties were complicit in creating the conditions that led to the mass incarceration of black and brown people?
4. How have the media contributed to the dangerous black man narrative?
5.This film is full of statistics, many of them startling. Which statistic stood out to you the most? Why do you think this is? .What will you do with this statistic?
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