Thursday, March 26, 2009

3 annotated bib's!

Was not sure how to post these on my groups page, so i went ahead an did it on mine...
Also, my topic has changed.... errr i know it's bad, but i was unable to find soem legit sources for the topic, "How technology is changing the way we communicate"
So here is what i have came up with instead...

“Young Black Men and Drug Policy.” Editorial. America. 25 Nov. 1995 7 April 2008
This source provides excellent statistics pertaining to minorities and how racial profiling and the war on drugs affects them and inner-city communities. Source states that racial biases are clearly evident as tools in law enforcement. This source will also give me great statistics to refer to while persuading the reader of obvious biases towards ethnic minorities.

Leo, John. “Inventing a Crack in the Law” U.S. News and World Report. 119.18 (1995):
22. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. 7 April 2008 This source focuses on the overwhelming number of black males imprisoned for the use or sale of crack cocaine. The author states the enormous difference in the sentencing between powder and crack cocaine and how the war on drugs is really a war on blacks and meant to imprison minority citizens. This article is an opinion piece and will be helpful when stressing the frustration of racial profiling and the war on drugs from minorities point of view.

Small, Deborah. “The War on Drugs is a War on Racial Justice.” Social Research. 68.3
(2001):896-903. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. DSC lib., 7 April. 2008< > This article is written by Deborah Small who insists that the drug policy in the United States in racially biased. She goes on to explain that not only is this creating a overpopulated prison community of blacks and Latino’s, but it is demographically removing these citizens from voting for any major political office by creating a large felon population in inner-cities. Author also includes many legitimate statistics of arrests of blacks compared to whites regarding racial profiling as it pertains to the so-called war on drugs. This source will be very helpful for developing the importance and relevance my two connected topics.

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