Borderlands Walls, fences, barriers: historical perspectives, case examples, political questions
Writing strategies ✤ summary: key words and ideas ✤ commentary: explanation and analysis ✤ case examples: specifics from history and current news ✤ your proposal or position: take a stand and give reasons ✤ enduring questions: complexity, further thought
01 Ellis Cose ✤ Author of The End of Anger: A New Generation’s Take on Race and Rage, 2011 ✤ “Red, Brown, and Blue” essay in Newsweek, 2010
01 Richard Rodriguez ✤ Author of Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982) and Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2002) ✤ “The Great Wall of America” 2010 essay in the Los Angeles Times
4-min video
Recent case examples ✤ Berlin Wall ✤ Israel-West Bank Barrier ✤ U.S.-Mexico Border ✤ Syrian refugees in Sweden and EU countries
Take a position and give reasons ✤ Should the U.S. patrol and enforce a U.S.-Mexico border? ✤ And what about Central American refugees from drug wars, especially children? ✤ Immigration policy? Amnesty? Anchor babies?