Episode 9 - "It's Racism, Sofi!"
Crime Politics in Star Wars
Sources
Onscreen Media
•Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
•Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
•Star Wars: Episode VI – The Return of the Jedi (1983)
•Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
•Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)
•Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) – S5 Ep14 - Eminence
•Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015)
•Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
•The Book of Boba Fett (2021) – S1 Ep2 - The Tribes of Tatooine, S1 Ep3 - The Streets of Mos Espa
•Andor (2022) – S1 Ep8 - Narkina 5, S1 Ep9 - Nobody’s Listening!, S1 Ep10 - One Way Out
Reference Books
•Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy by Pablo Hidalgo
•Dawn of Rebellion: The Visual Guide by Pablo Hidalgo, Emily Shkoukani
•The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition by Pablo Hidalgo, David Reynolds
•Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary by Pablo Hidalgo
Novels
•Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray
Publications
•The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills
•Cruel and Unusual by Laurence Michalak
•The Empire Triumphant by Kevin Wetmore
•The History and Politics of Star Wars by Chris Kempshall
•The Racist Menace by John Leo
•We Weren’t Always White: Race and Ethnicity in Italian/American Literature by Fred L. Gardaphé
•Drugs and Race in American Culture: Orientalism in the Turn-of-the-Century Discourse of Narcotic Addiction by Timothy A. Hickman
•Symbolism and Racism in Drug History and Policy by Desmond Manderson
•The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control by David F. Musto
•Politics as a Vocation by Max Weber
•The Second Treatise of Civil Government by John Locke
•Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
•The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
•Race and Ethnicity: What Are Their Roles in Gang Membership? by Adrienne Freng, Terrance J. Taylor
•“I’ve Got a Bad Feeling About This”: Star Wars and Radical Criminology by Andrew Wilczak
•Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights by Molly Smith, Juno Mac
Web Sources
•The Devastating Impact of 'Fear of Crime' Politics by Some More News on youtube.com
•The Alt-Right Playbook: The Cost of Doing Business by Innuendo Studios on youtube.com
•The Hidden Rules of Modern Society by Philosophy Tube on youtube.com
•How Police Make Up The Law by Philosophy Tube on youtube.com
•A Man Plagiarised My Work: Women, Money, and the Nation by Philosophy Tube on youtube.com
•The War on Drugs is Designed to Discriminate by VICE on youtube.com
•US Anti-Drug Laws Aren't Scientific — They're Colonialist and Racist by Big Thing on youtube.com
•The War on Drugs: Crash Course Black American History #42 by CrashCourse on youtube.com
•The Problem With Nonprofits 9: The Criminalization and Medicalization of Violence by Another Slice on youtube.com
•Women as Background Decoration: Part 2 - Tropes vs Women in Video Games by Feminist Frequency on youtube.com
•Harm Reduction by LastWeekTonight on youtube.com
•Tangent: The Male Gaze by Contrapoints on youtube.com (Patreon-exclusive media)
•Planet of Hats on tvtropes.org
•Modern Slavery in United States on walkfree.org
•Map on walkfree.org
•Racism and the "War on Drugs" by Deborah Small on rnz.co.nz
•“There is no such thing as liberalism…” by Frank Wilhoit on crookedtimber.org
•What are all the drugs in Star Wars, and what do they do? on quora.com
•What are the real life equivalents of the various crime syndicates in Star Wars? on quora.com
•In ‘Operation Underworld,’ local author Matthew Black chronicles an unholy alliance in World War II by Denise Davidson on sandiegouniontribune.com
•Poe Dameron: Free Fall and Star Wars’ Evolving Relationship With Criminality by M. Dean Cooper
•How Italians Became ‘White’ by Brent Staples on nytimes.com
•'The Godfather' and the limitations of representation on npr.org
•Collaborations between the United States government and Italian Mafia on wikipedia.org
•What was Operation Underworld? by Christopher Klein
•We Know How George Floyd Died. It Wasn’t From Drugs. by Carl L. Hart
•Race and the Criminalization of Drugs by Chris Adams on nationalpress.org
•Look at the Real Gateways to Drug Addiction by Deborah Peterson Small on nytimes.com
•Negro Cocaine “FIENDS” Are a New Southern Menace by Edward Huntington Williams, M.d. on nytimes.com
•Drug War States on drugpolicy.org
•End of History on wikipedia.org
•War on Drugs on wikipedia.org
•Fair Sentencing Act on wikipedia.org
•History of United States drug prohibition on wikipedia.org
•Opinion | Mo Brooks: The voice of the Alabama Republican Party by Josh Moon on alreporter.com
•Mo Brooks on wikipedia.org
•It's Lucas who's the real menace by Gilbert Adair on independent.co.uk
•Star Wars Author Kevin J. Anderson On ‘Jedi Academy Trilogy’, ‘Darksaber’, & ‘Tales of the Jedi’ by Doug McCausland on web.archive.org
•Faction on xwing-miniatures-second-edition.fandom.com
•Scum Ships on xwing-miniatures-second-edition.fandom.com
•Social Contract Theory on iep.utm.edu
•Penal labor in the United States on wikipedia.org
•Slavery and the Modern-Day Prison Plantation by Ryan Moser on daily.jstor.org
•The Racial Contract on jstor.org
•U.S. Inmates Plan Nationwide Prison Strike To Protest Labor Conditions by Cheryl Corley on npr.org
•What is the Prison Industrial Complex? What is Abolition? On criticalresistance.org
•Black people nine times more likely to face stop and search than white people by Vikram Dodd on theguardian.com
•Stop and Search - Ethnicity Facts and Figures on ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk
•Stop and search and arrests, year ending 31 March 2023 on gov.uk
•Chinese Immigrants in the United States by Jie Zong, Jeanne Batalova
•The problem with Poe Dameron’s role in ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw on dailydot.com
Wookieepedia Pages
•Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game
•Narkina 5 Imperial Prison Complex
•ACH-14 Advanced Combat Helmet
Lectures and general acquired knowledge via The University of Utah