Essay Question:
What is the role of an ally and why is this important for social changes in regard to inequality? Select one group in the U.S. society (past or present) in which an ally was significant in bringing about change for this group to discuss in detail.
Directions:
- APA format
- Double spaced
- 4 pages
- Use 4-6 sources from the source material below (a quick Google search will find all the documents) do not use any other documents.
The Danger of A Single Story
Understanding the Origin of Skin Pigmentation (14:48), Ted Talks
What White Parents (Like Me) Should Not Tell Children
Imagine a Country, 2012, Holly Sklar
Domination & Subordination, Jean Baker Miller
Defining Racism: "Can We Talk?", Beverly Daniel Tatum
Constructing Race, Creating White Privilege, Pem Davidson Buck
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Annette Lareau
Myth of the Welfare Queen
Class in America: 2012, Gregory Mantsios
Deconstructing the Underclass, Herbet Gans
"Nickel and Dimed" from The American Ruling Class (about 10 mins), Bill Moyers
Cause of Death: Inequality, Alejandro Reuss
Still Separate, Still Unequal: America`s Educational Apartheid, Jonathan Kozol
College Choices Are Limited for Students From Needy Familes, Report Says, Stephen Burd
The Making of the American 99% and the Collapse of the Middle Class, Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich
Wealth Gaps Rise To Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics: Twenty-to-One, Kochhar, Fry, & Taylor
Mass Incarceration in the Time of Color-Blindness" Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stephenson
Central Park 5: Short Video Report
Harvard Law Professor Ogletree on the Arrest of Prof. Henry Louis Gates Short Video Report
A Class Divided (46: 00), Frontline
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch, Richard Wright
Ronald Reagan`s Racially Tinged Messages 3 Min video
The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia: "Using Objects of Intolerance to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice
C.P. Ellis, Studs Terkel
Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America,
The Black Codes, W.E.B. Du Bois
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Brown v. Board of Education: In Pursuit of Freedom and Equality Traveling Exhibit
PBS Documentary: Awakening Part 1
Changing the World Part 2
Charting a New Course Part 2
ANITA 3 minute trailer for new documentary about Anita Hill
Night to His Day": The Social Construction of Gender, Judith Lorber
Patriarchy, Allan Johnson
Sexism, Strength and Dominance in Disney Film
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
United States Constitution: 19th Amendment, 1920
The Equal Rights Amendment (Defeated)
Study: Median Wealth for Single Black Women: $100, Single Hispanic Women: $120, Single White Women: $41,000 (20:02), Democracy Now!
Homophobia As a Weapon of Sexism, Suzanne Pharr