Essay Assignment:
Instructions:
- Define the term oppression and provide an example from a group that has experienced oppression within the U.S. society. Make sure to use a variety of sources below to support your discussion. Make sure that your paper contains the following:
Thesis:
The explanation of social issues from course materials that the organization addresses
The thesis statement does four important things:
- Narrows your subject to a single, central idea you want readers to gain from your essay.
- Claims something specific and important about your subject, a claim that requires support.
- Conveys your purpose, your reason for writing.
- Concisely previews the arrangement of ideas to come in the paper.
- Use ONLY from the sources listed below. All of the sources can be found through a quick Google search.
- Use at least 4 of the sources.
- Use APA format
- 4 pages (not including cover page or reference page)
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 , 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, 1954,
Brown v. Board of Education: In Pursuit of Freedom and Equality Traveling Exhibit