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The Color of Law: Developing the White Middle Class

This lesson is the third and final lesson of the series The Color of Law: The Role of Government in Shaping Racial Inequity. In this lesson, students examine policies that supported and cultivated the creation of the white middle class and the practices that excluded black and nonwhite people from economic development.
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Reading & Language Arts
Social Studies
History
Economics
Social Justice Domain
October 10, 2019
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Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ph.D.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ph.D., (he/him) is the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and faculty director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project (IARA). His scholarship examines the intersections of racism, economic inequality, criminal justice and democracy in U.S. history.
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Slavery as a Form of Racialized Social Control

How did racial hierarchy adapt and persist after Emancipation? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.
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Social Studies
Civics
History
Social Justice Domain
October 13, 2014