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This week and next we will be reading the chapters “Democracy” (by Hannah-Jones) and “Capitalism” (by Desmond) in The 1619 Project (website/book) and begin reading Critical Race Theory: An Introduction. Choose 8 questions to answer from the following list. Answer four of these in sentences, and answer four in a paragraph (for a total of 4 sentences and four paragraphs). Engage with the reading and utilize quotes, paraphrase and citation in your paragraphs to substantiate your answer.
“Democracy” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/mag… It is a little bit hard to maneuver the website just click on the story and it will provide the whole thing.
1. Describe the irony of Hannah-Jones’ father’s military service, and his flying the U.S. flag in their front yard.
2. Explain what she means by the deployment of the metaphor of slavery during colonial times.
3. Explain one or more of these ironies: the author’s dad flying the U.S. flag; Thomas Jefferson drafting the Declaration of Indendence and Robert Hemmings; Joseph Harris and the Earl of Dunsmore.
4. How does Frederick Douglass’ eulogy of President Abraham Lincoln reveal a more complex Lincoln?
5 How do poor whites benefit from Emancipation and Reconstruction in the South?
6. How did military service (World War II) transform Black men? How did this lay the foundation for civil rights movements and social justice movements?
7. Describe her final (experience) argument about American citizenship.
“Capitalism” & Critical Race Theory (ch. 1). https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/mag…
1. Desmond’s chapter “Capitalism” describes this economic system as “a mean kind of freedom.” Provide some dates, statistics and explanation from the chapter about how the cotton economy shaped U.S. (and global) capitalism.
2. List at least 3 ways slavery and cotton industry shapes capitalism today.
3. Read chapter I of Critical Race Theory by Delgado and Stefancic. List the 5 Tenets (or “themes”) of Critical Race theory in chapter I. Explain one in a paragraph.
4. According to article, how is modern day policing shaped by the epoch of slavery? How was it shaped by the 1960’s?
