1.
One recent study called gun violence a “public health crisis decades in the making.” The CDC has found that Black males between the ages of 15 and 34 accounted for 37 percent of homicides, even though they made up just 2 percent of the US population, a rate 20 times higher than white males of the same age. And yet mass shootings in 2020 declined, on average there was a mass shooting every 73 days in 2020 compared with one every 36 days in 2019 or every 45 days in 2018 and 2018. Why do high-profile (but rare) mass shooting garner so much more public interest that the more typical and frequent form of gun violence in the US hardly generates any attention.
2.
One out of five American children live in poverty, and children raised by nonwhite, single mothers remain the most likely to experience poverty. Please explain why the social problem of childhood poverty remains one of the most durable social challenges in American society. Discuss the role of race in this social problem.
3.
Use the work of Joel Best and Hilgartner and Bosk to explore how the social problem of the policing crisis is framed, social constructed and managed by a variety of operatives in American culture. Consider the role of social activists, Blue versus Black Lives Matter, the media, policymakers and politicians, the courts, and the police themselves. Be sure to cite readings in your response.
4.
Hispanics represent one of the largest ethnic and racial groups in American society. Please discuss what you have learned about this important and growing ethnic and racial group in the US. How are Hispanics both an ethnic and racial group? Discuss the significance of the Latino/a/x vs. Hispanic terminology.
Best, Joel. 2012. Social Problems. New York: WW Norton Press.
Edin, Kathryn and Maria Kefalas. 2005. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Edin, Kathryn and H. Luke Shaefer. 2015. $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Wilson, William J. 1996. When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. New York: Random House.
Moskos, Peter. 2009. Cop in the Hood. Princeton,NJ: Princeton University Press.
Alexander, Michelle. 2012. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindedness. New York: The New Press.
Macy, Beth. 2018. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America. New York: Hachette.
Kotlowitz, Alex. 2019. An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago. New York: Doubleday.
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