The prompt is attached below. There also needs to be a thesis for the essay so please make sure that is clear. Please try to use the book as much as possible as it well help you with writing the essay and is a requirement for the essay. After you choose which question you would like to answer I will send you pictures from the book that covers those intellectuals. There needs to be quotes from the book in the essay as it is part of the assignment to use quotes.
if you chose a
question that has TA-NEHISI COATES,
this is the link you should use https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
B. CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. ANSWERS SHOULD BE 3-4 PAGES. 60%
1.DISCUSS WHAT YOU PERCEIVE TO BE THE SUBJECTIVE NECESSITY FOR THE IDEAS OF FOUR OF THE FOLLOWING FIVE INTELLECTUALS: REINHOLD NIEBUHR, MALCOLM X, TOM HAYDEN (OR A TYPICAL MEMBER OF SDS), BETTY FREIDAN, EDWARD SAID OR TE NEHISI –COATES. TO WHAT EXTENT DOES AN “ILLEGITIMACY COMPLEX” PLAY A ROLE IN SHAPING THEIR IDEOLOGIES.
2.IT IS POSSIBLE TO CHARACTERIZE THE OVERALL ARC OF THE INTELLECTUAL MOOD OF THE THINKERS WE HAVE STUDIED IN THIS CLASS AS A JOURNEY FROM ILLUSION TO THE AWFUL TRUTH. TRY TO FOLLOW THE LINE THAT RUNS FROM JAMES’ STRUGGLE TO BELIEVE, TO THE SOCIAL GOSPELERS (PROGRESSIVISM) , THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS, TO THE THE QUANDARY OF INTELLECTUALS LIKE REINHOLD NIEBUHR DURING WORLD WAR TWO, THROUGH THE BEATS, THE NEW LEFT, ALL THE WAY TO POST MODERNISM. BE SURE TO INCLUDE THE ROLE OF AT LEAST ONE AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL SUCH AS JAMES BALDWIN, MARTIN LUTHER KING, MALCOLM X, HENRY LEWIS GATES, TA NEHISI COATES OR A MUSICAL OR LITERARY ARTIST OF YOUR CHOICE IN YOUR DISCUSSION OF THIS CENTURY-LONG JOURNEY FROM CERTAINTY
3.REINHOLD NIEBUHR SUGGESTS THAT A PERSISTENT FLAW IN MODERN AMERICAN THOUGHT IS ITS UNDERESTIMATION OF THE POWER OF EVIL AND PREDATORY SELF-INTEREST. TO SOME EXTENT NIEBUHR IS ADDRESSING THE LIMITS OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM. EVALUATE THE EXTENT TO WHICH NIEBUHR’S CRITIQUE IS MIRRORED OR CONTESTED IN THE THINKING OF FOUR OF THE FOLLOWING: C. WRIGHT MILLS, PHILLIP ROTH, GUNNAR MYRDAL, E.B. WHITE, ALLAN GINSBERG, THE FRAMERS OF THE PORT HURON STATEMENT, MARTIN LUTHER KING, NOAM CHOMSKY OR MALCOLM X.
4. BOB DYLAN AND SUSAN SONTAG WALK INTO A BAR AND SIT DOWN NEXT TO ONE ANOTHER (BY ACCIDENT) THEY BOTH JUST HAPPEN TO BE CARRYING COPIES OF ALLEN GINSBERG’S “HOWL FOR CARL SOLOMON,” AND AS PEOPLE IN BARS DO, THEY BEGIN TO CHAT. THEY GET INTO A HEATED DISCUSSION ABOUT THE POEM, ITS IMPACT ON EACH OF THEM AND ITS INTERPRETATION. (WRITE THIS AS A DIALOGUE)
5. WRITE A PANEL DISCUSSION ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF RACE IN AMERICA. YOU MUSTINCLUDE TA NEHISI COATES, EDWARD SAID, JAMES BALDWIN, MARTIN LUTHER KING AND MALCOLM X IN YOUR DISCUSSION. (YOU MAY HAVE YOUR PANELISTS ALLUDE TO DU BOIS BUT HE IS NOT TO BE ON THE PANEL.) YOU MAY ALSO INCLUDE AN ADDITIONAL PANELIST – A FAVORITE HIP HOP ARTIST, WRITER, THINKER, ETC. THE DISCUSSION CAN TRAWL BACK AND FORTH THROUGH TIME (1945-PRESENT) BUT MUST INCLUDE SOME RUMINATIONS ABOUT THE CURRENT STATE OF RACE RELATIONS
6.SEE THE FILM THE ORIGINAL KINGS OF COMEDYAND WRITE AN ESSAY IN WHICH YOU ANALYZE THE FILM, USING HENRY LOUIS GATES’ INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, FROM LOOSE CANONS, JAMES BALDWIN’S “MANY THOUSANDS GONE,” AND EDWARD SAID’S ORIENTALISM, YOU CAN USE W.E B. DUBOIS’ CONTENTION THAT RACE IS SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED BUT AVOID A LENGTHY DISCUSSION OF DU BOIS. YOU MUST GIVE VERY SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION BOTH OF WHITENESS AND BLACKNESS IN THE FILM.
(NOTE: DO NOT BE FOOLED. THIS IS QUESTION IS MAD HARD.)
7. GENERATIONAL DISCORD CHARACTERIZES SOME OF THE CHANGES IN 20THCENTURY THOUGHT. DESCRIBE THE CHALLENGE THAT SPECIFIC THINKERS FROM 4 OF THE FOLLOWING OFFERED TO THE DOMINANT CULTURE OF THEIR TIME: THE MODERNS ; THE BEATS (ALLEN GINSBERG, ETC.) ;SDS, THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT AND THE COUNTER-CULTURE; THE FEMINISTS (BETTY FRIEDAN); THE BLACK PANTHERS AND THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT (INCLUDING MALCOLM X.)
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