Assignment task:
Chosen Institutional space - Criminal Justice.
Chosen Essay Topic- Ensuring racial equity in the criminal justice system.
In Bryan Stevenson's TED talk, he proposes a "crazy" or radical idea to criminally try or treat his "poor 14-year-old Black male client like a privileged white 75-year-old corporate executive" (Stevenson, 2012).
For your final paper, you are asked to see this quote as an encapsulation of all we have discussed over the semester. You need to pick one unit from the second half of the course (work, family, education, media, and popular culture, bodies, beauty, and sports, or the criminal justice system) and apply this analogy to propose your own radical ideas for transformation.
Use your outside article, weblink, media source, or news event that illustrates inequity in your chosen institutional space, be it family, education, work, the media or the criminal justice system.
Then, drawing upon the readings and lessons of the first half of the course, describe the ways that intersectional inequalities based on race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and/or diversity are at play in this example.
Finally, think about Stevenson's analogy about treating all individuals as if they were "privileged white 75-year old corporate executives."
What radical suggestions do you have for change within your chosen institutional space? Try to take a stab about how to change the injustice you have observed. Becoming aware of who has an "invisible backpack" and who doesn't can help make a difference toward equality and social justice.