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Write a 1500+ word paper on ONE of the choices below. Quotations and Works Cited page do NOT apply to word count.

Total number of quotations: 5 or more (at least one from EACH assigned course materials you choose and three from your 3 outside research sources)

Total outside research sources on your Works Cited: 3

Total outside research quotations: 1 from each source listed

Total number of quotations from assigned materials below that you chose: 1 from each of the TWO assigned materials (you may include additional quotes if needed)

Choose ONE:

#1--Use 2 assigned readings below to discuss an issue involving capitalism and/or the state and how inequality is supported by our institutions.  Choose a topic that highlights how inequality functions in our society through for-profit systems as the prison system or food production (including fast food restaurants that cater to the poor), or through the lack of opportunities for education if you live in a poorer neighborhood. You may also talk about historical issues where people were forced off their land or out of their houses even as they were being "culturally assimilated" by mainstream American society.  You may discuss how class and race often work against people in need (disenfranchised groups in society).  

If you need to, do an analysis of capitalism according to the reading by Karl Marx and do some internet research.  Use at least 1 quotation from EACH of the assigned articles plus 3 quotations from 3 outside research sources.

OR

#2--Write on 1 assigned film AND 1 assigned reading to discuss how the state holds people back (oppression).  You may pick any section of the film and COMPARE it with the information presented in one of the assigned readings below.  You can do an analysis of the effects of prison, a poor education, industrial food production, or exploitative labor (minimum wage jobs, unpaid labor) on certain members of society (the oppressed, the disenfranchised).   Be sure to refer clearly refer to the sections of the film and reading you are discussing.  Use at least 2 quotations from each of the assigned materials (film and article) plus 3 quotations from 3 outside research sources.

Write a detailed, critical essay on one or two main ideas in the readings and/or films. Be sure to include a critical analysis of the article and do a little research on any unfamiliar concepts. Your essay must refer specifically to the readings and/or films and include at least 2 quotations each, and THREE quotations from outside sources. These sources MUST be documented in MLA format!  Your essay MUST focus on the assigned materials, using research as support ONLY.  

You MUST include a Works Cited page with your paper in proper MLA format to receive a passing grade! See course website links for help with MLA formatting.

Choose TWO articles below:

Read "The Damnation of Women" by W.E.B. Du Bois, pp66-69
Read "Winning the Future: Improving Education for the Latino Community," pp1-8
Read “Behind the Scenes” by Elizabeth Keckley, pp43-46
Read “Selections from the Communist Manifesto” (including the tip sheet) by Karl Marx, pp91-101
Read "Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail" (in Chicago) by Clarence Darrow, pp58-66
Read excerpt from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, pp132-136
Read "The Lost Beautifulness" by Anzia Yezierska, pp159-171

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This article explores W.E.B. Du Bois's contributions to the discourse and development of the Africana tradition of critical theory,
It examines the sociotheoretical and political linkages he made between various antiracist anti-sexist, anticolonial,
and anti-capitalist thoughttraditions and movements. It argues that unlike most of the members of the Frankfurt School
tradition of critical theory, Du Bois did not downplay gender domination and discrimination.
W. E. B. Du Bois provides an important, though often overlooked, Africana history, culture, and philosophy – informed framework
for (a) redeveloping Africana studies and relating it to the crises and conundrums of the 21st century;
(b) reconstructing critical social theory, making it more multicultural, transethnic, transgender,
and non-Western European–philosophy focused; and (c) reinventing what it means to be an insurgent intellectualactivist
(one who relates critical theory to radical political praxis). Du Bois has been hailed as an historian, sociologist, Marxist, and political activist but never an
early interdisciplinary social theorist with concrete political commitments to not simply Black liberation and racial justice
but to women's liberation, the poor masses and working classes, and colonized people of color worldwide.
He has long been praised and criticized by scholars who have interpreted and reinterpreted his work, often overlooking
its deep critical theoretical dimensions. In this article, Du Bois's multifarious and ever-evolving social theory is situated
at the center and examined for its significance to the discourse and development of Africana studies, contemporary radical
political theory, and revolutionary social moveme.

The aim of this article is to analyze W.E.B. Du Bois's educational thought for its key contributions to contemporary Africana
philosophy of education. To succinctly explore Du Bois's philosophy of education, the article outlines some of the ways his
pedagogical theories and practices are inextricable from, and virtually incomprehensible without critically considering,
his philosophy of history, concepts of culture, economic thought, and social and political philosophy.
Arguing that many scholars have both masked and marred Du Bois's contributions to philosophy of education by focusing almost
exclusively on his "talented tenth" theory, this study examines his educational thought after he produced the classic,
"The Talented Tenth" (1903), essay. The article advances that Du Bois's revision of the talented tenth into a theory of the
"guiding hundredth," which stresses struggle, sacrifice and service, group leadership, and African historical and cultural
grounding, provides Africana philosophy of education with a pedagogical paradigm and provocative point of departure.

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