Describe the impact of class in your life — not class generally, but your class and any significant experiences, teachings and thoughts pertaining to class at various life stages. Interview two family members about their experiences of and beliefs about their class. Apply the course materials to your own experiences. teachings and thoughts pertaining to class at various life stages. Interview two family members about their experiences of and beliefs about their class. Apply the course materials to your own experiences.Writeyour experiences, and then use the course materials to make an analysis of your experiences.
Requirement
- Your response should be 2-3 (500-800 word), double-spaced, standard pages using APA format for font and citations (no abstract needed).
- Be sure to craft a tightly-written thesis statement to focus your essay.
- For full credit, make sure to have proper punctuation, spelling, and grammar, and to properly apply in-text APA format (paper formatting and APA in-text citations) when integrating the book readings, web readings, and web videos into your essay.
- Content
- Do not use outside sources to answer these questions. Again, bring only the weeks one and two book readings, web readings, and web videos into your essay.
- Well-supported papers will incorporate a wide range of course materials.
- Be sure to fully answer all parts of the question(s) being asked.
- Avoid merely summarizing the information from our course materials in your paper. Instead, provide analysis of how the SOC 350 material specifically supports your response to the exam question.
Class materials (use the following sources only)
- Brown v. Board of Education In Pursuit of Freedom and Equality Traveling Exhibit (http://brownvboard.org/content/traveling-exhibit-panels)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/class-divided/
http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/jimcrow/origins.htm
Please read the following sections of the Rothenberg text: Race, Class and Gender in the United States and view the following:
- Racial Formations, Michael Omi and Howard Winant, pp. 11
- Presumed Guilty: American Muslims and Arabs (28:56), Making Contact: National Radio Project
- What Kind of Asian Are You? (3 minute spoken word video)
- Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of America, Mae Ngai, pp. 207
- Color-Blind Racism, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, pp. 113
- Part VII Introduction: How it Happened: Race and Gender Issues in U.S. Law, pp. 469
- Civilize Them with a Stick, Mary Brave Bird (Crow Dog) and Richard Erodes, pp. 407
- Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest . . ., U.S. Commission on Human Rights, p. 477
- For Many Latinos, Racial Identity is More Culture than Color, Mireya Navarro, pp. 220
- People v. Hall, 1854, pp. 493
- How Jews Became White Folks: and What That Says About Race in America, Karen Brodkin, 27
- Then Came the War, Yuri Kochiyama, pp. 411
- Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites
