Prompt:
Takethe artistic piece that is named below and: deconstruct it, critique it, compare it, analyze it, using the methodological tools of analyzing racism.
The art piece is the movie: Twelve Years a Slave
Theories 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...
Watch the movie and choose two of theories above to be the central piece. They are the lenses by which you will analyze the artistic pieces. Some names of readings are listed below (you can search them in Google), which you can back to readings and choose some that can help you in depth to support your understanding of the theories.
3-5 pages, 12 font, at least two sources, any style of citation is allowed, pay more attention in argument when you write the paper
Readings:
Feagin's Systemic Racism,
Gobineau's Inequality of the Human Races
Huxley's Emancipation...
Charles Mills Racial Contract
howardzinn A People's History...
Blackmon's Slavery by Another Name
Cone's The Cross and the Lynching Tree
Just choose the readings which to help support your theories that you selected based on movie!