A 3-page Paper about Race and Poverty in the Americas

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You are to take one or two of the artistic pieces that are named below (or, you may find an equivalent artistic piece that also deals with similar issues of race) and: deconstruct it, critique it, compare it, analyze it, using the methodological tools of analyzing racism that we have learned through the readings and lectures...From among these are: White privilege, structural racism, Race as social construct, the racial contract, racial moral cognitive dysfunction/double standards of morality and empathy based on race, epistemology of forgetfulness...

The theories that we have dealt with are going to be the central piece. They are the lenses by which you will analyze the artistic pieces. You must refer back to our readings in depth to support your understanding of the theories.

The following are the art pieces:

Movies: Rosewood, Malcolm X, Twelve Years a Slave (something else of your choice)

Paintings: the murals found at the Church of the Advocate... (This church is within walking distance...to go see the pieces you need to call in...Find their number on the web)

Songs: either Brother Ali’s "The Travelers" or, "breaking dawn", Immortal techniques' "Third World" or “rich man's world" or, Wise intelligent's "Globe holders", or, Amir Sulaiman’s “Somalia”…

3-5 pages, 12 font, at least two sources, any style of citation is allowed...