Week Four         Urban Streetgang Violence: "We've Got to Have a Truce!"

·        Theme:  “Racial Profiling!: ‘They All Look the Same!’”

·        Film Evaluation #2 Due  - Baby Boy (By or before Friday, 8:00pm, with Sudents having Bonus Opportunity for also including evaluation of Boyz N The Hood)

·        On Point Discussions: "Black AIDS: 'A Pattern of White Conspiracy or Something Really On The Downlow?'"" (Group Presentations Based Upon Assigned Articles and Research)

·        Special Screening:: "Gangsta:The Black Male Image in Society"" (2000 -- Documentary)

·        Reading: Chapter 3, “Which Man’s Army” by Steven A. Holmes, pgs. 40-55 from How Race Is Lived in America; “Baptizing Theory, Representing Truth” and “More Than Academic,” pgs. 42-78 from Open Mike; and “Prison Abolition” by Angela Davis from Black Genius.

·        Rap Time #2: “From Music Videos Featuring Scantily-Clad Women to Lyrics that Glorify Pimping, Drugs and Violence: Should Rap Artists Be Censored for Music That Denigrates a Community Trying to Heal Itself?”

·        Film: Conviction (2002 -- Note this film is available through Blockbuster, should be ordered at least 1 week before screening.)