Directions: In a thesis-driven essay of approximately four pages, please respond to the following prompt:
Is it possible to be truly post-racial (a world in which racial prejudice no longer exists)? Why or why not? Argue your opinion and support it with examples.
So remember, the answer to this question IS your thesis.
Write according to the basic five-paragraph conditions.
Five paragraphs are Introduction, body paragraph 1, body paragraph 2, body paragraph 3, In conclusion.
Grading Criteria and Requirements:
Your essay must show:
How clearly you can communicate your argument (thesis)
How well-structured your paper is with a clear introduction, thesis, body paragraphs, transitions, and a conclusion that answers the “So what?” question.
How well you can use textual evidence (at least two quotations from the articles in our textbook and at least one quotation from an outside source) to support the claims you’re making in your analysis.
How well you can use one of this unit’s videos with the authors to help elucidate and support the claims you are making in your analysis (you can just refer to the video or a line from the video).
How effectively you can use the tools of analysis that you have been using the last couple of weeks to help make sense of what the research and the articles in this unit say.
How polished and professional your paper is with few sentence-level errors, following the MLA format.
Use two or more citations from articles I mentioned in Reading America at the link below.
Must unconditionally include one quotation from the outside.
1. Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations”
2. Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe, “Theories and Constructs of Race”
3. Nobody, Mark Lamont Hill
4. Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, From Muslim Girl
5. José Orduña, “Passport to the New West”
6. Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco, “How Immigrants Become ‘Other’”
How well you can use one of this unit’s videos with the authors to help elucidate and support the claims you are making in your analysis (you can just refer to the video or a line from the video).
1. (Ta-Nehisi Coates on race, hope, and speaking out) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rcaJZGTE-M Ta-Nehisi Coates on race, hope, and speaking out
2. (Nobody with Marc Lamont Hill) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jneL4nS3SA&t=473s
3. (Amani Al-Khatahtbeh Muslim Women’s Voices Elevated in America) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYU9qPbMNJU
4. (Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco on Immigration in the age of COVID) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP1dVo3qhTU
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