1. What are the two myths of the War on Drugs Alexander discusses?
2. Explain the section Waging War.
3. What are the incentives for police departments in the War on Drugs?
4. How, according to Adorno, is free time heteronomous?
5. How does Adornos article on free time complement his analysis of television?
about 100 words per answer.
Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. She has served as an associate profes- sor of law at Stanford Law School and the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. Throughout her legal career, she has won numerous awards and fellowships, including being named a Soros Justice Fellow and a Senior Fellow for the Ford Foundation. Prior to joining academia, Alexander engaged in civil rights litiga- tion in both the private and nonprofit sectors, ultimately serving as the director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of North- ern California, where she helped to launch a national campaign against racial profiling. Currently, she is a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.
Alexander is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Vanderbilt University. She has clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the
U.S. Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals and has appeared as a com- mentator on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and Democracy Now! among other media outlets. The New Jim Crow is her first book. For more information, visit www.newjimcrow.com.
