Below are additional resources that could be used to teach or for extension lessons.
NYT’s: Violence and Football
New York Times: Violence in Football Continued
CNN’s Squid Game Popularity
Psychology Today’s: Squid Game Criticism
Harvard Crimson’s: “In ‘Squid Game’ Violence is the Point”
PBS: 15 to Life: Juvenile Justice and Rehabilitation
PrisonPolicy.org: Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2024
New York Times Review: In This Satire, Televised Blood Baths Offer Prisoners a Path to Freedom
The Sentencing Project: One in Five: Ending Racial Inequity in Incarceration
ACLU: Criminal Law Reform
The 19th: Incarceration rates for Black men and women have been declining since 2000. Reform efforts are helping
Symbolism: Links, nicknames (and a noticeably absent one),
Organization: Vignettes, Multiple PoVs, Hendrix Young's PoV, Simon J. Craft
Threads of Reality: Footnotes, Reality TV, PPV violence
Afrofuturism: What is Afrofuturisum from The Smithsonian
Voices From Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex
Excerpts from: The Law and Order Issue: Incarceration Rates by State
Excerpts from: The Law and Order Issue: Breaking the Law