REFLECTIVE PAPER INSTRUCTIONS:This final paper should cover the readings 6 chapters, plus the articles “OptionalEthnicities” and “100 Percent American” ; links to them are posted below.- The paper should reflect your grasp of the concepts and issues posed in all thoserequired readings. There is no way to summarize them all in a cramped space of 6pages, so you’ll need to be both selective
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REFLECTIVE PAPER INSTRUCTIONS:
This final paper should cover the readings 6 chapters, plus the articles “Optional
Ethnicities” and “100 Percent American” ; links to them are posted below.
- The paper should reflect your grasp of the concepts and issues posed in all those
required readings. There is no way to summarize them all in a cramped space of 6
pages, so you’ll need to be both selective in your summary (highlighting what you
consider most important and why), and reflective in your critical-analytical
comments about what you read and study.
- The paper should go beyond summaries (which are provided to you on the first and
last page of each chapter of the main text), to critical thinking about what you read.
There are different ways to approach that “reflective” part of what you write; there
is no set formula.
- A reminder: the last page of every chapter in the main text has a feature labeled
THE BIG PICTURE, which lists main points and key terms, but also key questions
for critical thinking under the column “From Theory to Practice,” which invite you
to apply a “sociological imagination” to what you have read. It is in putting your
thoughts to paper that you will find your own voice.
“Race in America”, by Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer
Chapter 6: Crime and Punishment
Chapter 7: Education
Chapter 8: Aesthetics
Chapter 9: Associations
Chapter 10: Intimate Life
Chapter 11: Toward Racial Democracy
“Optional Ethnicities”
https://eee.uci.edu/18s/69170/sociology63/Optional+Ethnicities+-+For+Whites+Only+
+Mary+Waters+.pdf
“100 Percent American”
https://eee.uci.edu/18s/69170/sociology63/One+Hundred+Percent+American+-+Ralph
+Linton.pdf
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