Article 1: Decoding Black Women: Policing Practices and Rape Prosecution on the Streets of Philadelphia TONI IRVING

Article 2: Appalachian Stereotypes: Cultural History , Gender, and Sexual Rhetoric By Carissa Massey

Article 3: The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Article 4: "Nobody Knows de Trouble I See" Th e Cross and the Lynching Tree in the Black Experience

Article 5: Praise for Douglas A. Blackmon's S L A V E R Y BY ANOTHER NAME

Prepare 4-5 pages, three sources taken from attachments blow (no sources outside the material we dealt with in class), any type of citation allowed, 12 font, double spaced.

The assignment is a sincere reflection on issues of race/racism, poverty, and their nexus. This reflection will involve your(a Chinese international student) position (not only as conscious/aware being, but also as positioned bodily creatureconditioned by your context: class, gender, geography, race, etc...) as it engages and takes the authors we've read and experiences of others seriously. As suggested by Minjung: this assignment can be broken down into two parts, these two parts are conceptual and not chronological: the first asks you to investigate your identity as it is shaped by social realities like: race, white, non-white, colonization, imperialism, immigrant, colonized, white supremacy, non-white suffering, stereo-typing, prejudice, racism; and other most significant abstractions: religion, gender, sexuality, geography, etc... and the second asks you to do the first, investigate your identity, by engaging with, scholars who investigate, and write about these subjects (i.e. the readings we had), and, the experiences of other communities, identities, etc...