Africana Studies Final Paper

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We began this semester with three questions regarding #Black Lives Matter: (1) what is it; (2) what does it mean; (3) who and why is it important to American society?  Throughout the semester we have tried to answer these questions by examining the roots of slavery, its impact on American society, and the various social movements to create equality for the Black community.  Now as we end the semester by trying to answer these questions again.  In a 5-7 page (double space) using the theories, arguments, and your opinion answer the three questions.  The paper must include course materials and at 5 or more references with 3 of those references from course materials and 2 or more are to be outside sources which can be from journal articles, blogs, and newspaper articles.  The paper is to have page numbers, your name (if possible, in a header or footer), introduction , and conclusion. Use these as possible sources:  -Painter, N. I. (2007). Creating black Americans: African-American history and its meanings, 1619 to the present. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. -Alexander, M. (2012). The new jim crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. New York, NY: The New Press. -Allen, R. L. (2014). Past Due: The African American quest for reparations. The Black Scholar, 44(3), 7-28. -Baradaran, M. (2017). The color of money: Black banks and the racial wealth gap. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. -Barone, M. D. (2017). “Nothing has stopped me. I keep going:” Black gay narratives. Journal of LGBT Youth 14(3), 317-329. -Conrad, C. A., Whitehead, J., Mason, P. & Stewart, J. (Eds.). (2005). African Americans in the U.S. economy. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield Publisher, Inc. Read the Introduction. -Dumas, M. J. & Ross, K. M., (2016). “Be real black for me”: Imaging blackcrit in education. Urban Education, 5(40, 415-442. -Franklin, J. H., & Moss, A., (2000). From slavery to freedom: A history of African Americans. (Vol. 1), (8th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill Companies. -hooks, b. (2000). Feminist theory: From margin to center (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: South End Press. -King, M. L. Jr. (1986). Letter from a Birmingham City Jail. In J. M. Washington, (Ed.). A Last Testament of Hope: The essential writings and speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, NY: Haper One. -Lorde, A., (2008). Age, race, class, and sex: Women redefining difference. In B. J. Balliet (Ed.). Women, culture, & society: A Reader. Dubuque, IO: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. -Mcdonald, K. B. (2007). Embracing sisterhood: Class, identity, and contemporary black women. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. -McIntosh, P., (2009). White people facing race: Uncovering the myths that keep racism in place. Saint Paul, MN: The Saint Paul Foundation. Schneider, D. & Schneider, C. J. (2001). An eyewitness history of slavery in America: From colonial times to the Civil War. New York: NY, Checkmark Books. -Taylor, K. Y., (2016). From #blacklives matter to black liberation. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books. -The Combahee River Collective 1978 -West, C. (1993). Race matters. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, chapter Malcolm X and Black Rage -Whatcott, J. (2018). No selves to consent: Women’s prisons, sterilization, and the biopolitics of informed consent. Journal of Women in Culture and Society 44(1), 131-153. -Zewede. M. & Hamilton, D. (2020). Truth and redistribution. YesMaginze.org