Assignment Question
What do five credible, relevant authors have to say about one of the following?:
The intersection of art and oppression. – Walker, Baldwin, Smith, Staples, Hughes, The appropriation of Black English. (definition, usage, validity?) Baldwin, Smith The ERA, feminism, and the fight for women’s equality. – Chisholm, Hubbard. The success and failures of the #MeToo movement. – Hubbard, Burch LGBTQ+ progress, the challenges of intersectional identities within the LGBTQ+ community or movement. – Moore Pro sports and social justice movements. – Capehart, WSJ Cultural appropriation (examples, responses, definitions?) – Smith, Baldwin Black comics and superheroes – relevance, evolution? – Nama, G&J “Post-racialism” – Brent Staples, Zadie Smith? White supremacy in politics – Coates Write a 1250-1500-word essay that blends, or synthesizes, the views of five authors on one of the topics listed on Content -> Unit 5 – Synthesis. Introduce a topic and its context. Try to hook the reader by presenting why the topic is interesting or relevant. Offer various angles/aspects/pieces of the topic that the authors will comment on. Control the discussion with your own voice, introducing, providing context for, setting up, and following-up the authors’ thoughts with your own connections, explanations, observations, and transitions. Organize around blocks (the five authors) or around points (the various aspects that one or more authors comment on.) Favor paraphrase over direct quote, and consistently apply present-tense signal phrases. Use in-text citations to indicate the conclusions of authors’ thoughts. Conclude the discussion. Include five authored sources, along with any un-authored sources you deem necessary and relevant. Include a Works Cited page. Format according to MLA style.
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