HUMA 2319.American Minorities Study

Instructions: Select ONE prompt from the list below. Address it effectively with a specific thesis statement and ample academic evidence to support your claims in at least 500 words. Non-academic sources are not acceptable. The use of at least three secondary sources are required, and they must be cited correctly in-text throughout your answer and on a Work Cited page. ( The materials I provide in the course DO NOT count towards your secondary sources). NOTE: the above criteria meets the minimum demands for the assignment. If you wish to do well, you should go above and beyond the stated requirements. For example, while no scores are guaranteed, most “A” exams are three times the required length (1500 words) and use three times the amount of sources (9).

ASSIGNMENT

1. In reference to Whippman’s article and argument, why is jurisprudence necessary to ensure minority rights? What is the logic behind the idea? Can it exist in the larger United States, and/or should it be specific to each state? Defend your idea with reasons, examples, details, chains of logic, the primary text, and academic secondary sources. Cite the latter two items appropriately in-text.
2. Western history is written from the perspective of conquering people who have a specific agenda: supporting a system of institutionalized oppression to maintain and gain more power and wealth. So how are Castillo and/or Silko’s versions of minority women’s lives more truthful and important to overall American culture and society? Defend your idea with reasons, examples, details, chains of logic, the primary texts, and academic secondary sources. Cite the latter two items appropriately in-text.
3. To deal with “communal and collective trauma,” we have stories or narratives that remind us of who we are as a people and individuals. They are the new “artifacts” in the history of us. In relation to the works of Silko, Jana, Castillo, and/or Erdrich, how do we keep, secure, and transform our old traditions into the contemporary world, and more importantly, how do these “new ceremonies” aid in addressing and combating subjection, objection, and oppression? Defend your idea with reasons, examples, details, chains of logic, the primary texts, and academic secondary sources. Cite the latter two items appropriately in-text.
4. Address at least one element of racism, classism, or sexism in The Milagro Bean Field War and how such discrimination is grounded in larger economic, political, or social injustices that pervade American culture and society. For example, you could analyze water, land, culture, capital, or etc. in conjunction with the issues noted above. Choose one idea and defend it with reasons, examples, details, chains of logic, the primary text, and academic secondary sources. Cite the latter two types of evidence appropriately in-text