Race and Poverty: prompt
This assignment is a sincere reflection on issues of race/racism, poverty, and their nexus. This reflection will involve your position (not only as conscious/aware being, but also as positioned bodily creature conditioned by your context: class, gender, geography, race, etc…) as it engages and takes the authors we’ve read and experiences of others seriously. This assignment can be broken down into two parts, these two parts are conceptual and not chronological: the first asks you to investigate your identity as it is shaped by social realities like: race, white, non-white, colonization, imperialism, immigrant, colonized, white supremacy, non-white suffering, stereo-typing, prejudice, racism; and other most significant abstractions: religion, gender, sexuality, geography, etc… (according to readings below, select some aspects to write). The second asks you to do the first, investigate your identity, by engaging with, scholars who investigate, and write about these subjects (i.e. the readings below), and, the experiences of other communities, identities, etc…
This does not mean that write like part1….and part2….separately. This is the whole essay, so connect these two parts as a normal essay which can be divided into several paragraphs.
3-4 pages, three sources taken from reading below (no sources outside), any type of citation allowed, 12 font, double spaced.
Reading:
1. Tim Wise: Imagine If the Tea Party Was Black
http://www.alternet.org/story/146616/what_if_the_tea_party_were_black
2. Gobineau’s Inequality of the Human Races
https://books.google.com/books?id=JeM_1BCeffAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
3. RACE, ETHNICITY, AND SEXUALITY: INTIMATE INTERSECTIONS, FORBIDDEN FRONTIERS Nagel, Joane., 2003.
(If u can find this book and read it, that will be perfect. But if u cannot find it to read, there is the website which has the description about this book for u to consult http://www.cjsonline.ca/reviews/racethsex.html)
