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"Black Dreams, Electric Mirror": Cross-Cultural Teaching of State Terrorism and Legitimized Violence
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Direct linkRodriguez, S. M. – Teaching Sociology, 2022
Sci-fi has the power to open dialogue because its alternate world-building enables students to feel far enough from reality to discuss social problems unreservedly. In this essay, I review an assignment I developed using "Black Mirror" and "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams" that present episodes in which militarized policing,…
Descriptors: Science Fiction, Violence, Police, Racial Segregation
