Assignment

Your paper should be at least 2 but up to 3 full pages. Double spaced. 12 point, Times New Roman font. The paper should explain your contributions to the project. The paper should also explain the most important things you learned in the course of researching your project and explain how it related to the topics you learned during the semester.

Race & Diversity courses develop a sophisticated understanding of race and racism as dynamic concepts, pointing to the ways in which race intersects with other group identifications such as gender, class, ethnicity, religion, age, sexual orientation or disability.

Race & Diversity courses are intended to teach students how to:

• Recognize the ways in which race intersects with other group identifications or ascriptions: gender, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, age;

• Understand the relationships among diversity, justice and power;

• Explore what it means for individuals and institutions to exist in a multi-racial, multicultural world;

• Investigate the various forms race and racism has taken in different places and times; and

• Discuss race matters with diverse others in relation to personal experience.