Week #8 Discussion due Sun 3/20
Be sure to finish reading Kendi’s book Download Kendi’s book, along with the Week #8 Overview page before completing the Week #8 Discussion assignment.
For the Week #8 Discussion, you will need to pull ideas together from across Kendi’s book. You will have a few different options for this assignment:
Option 1: Explain how segregationists, assimilationists, and antiracists approach three different issues, as presented by Kendi. Focus on three examples from different chapters/issues from the first third, middle third, and final third of Kendi’s book.
Option 2: Describe three different stages on Kendi’s journey, and analyze how he uses his own story to illustrate a larger issue (three different issues). Select three of Kendi’s personal anecdotes from the first third, middle third, and final third of Kendi’s book.
Option 3: Analyze some of the historical examples that Kendi provides to illustrate the evolution of three different issues from three separate chapters in the first third, middle third, and final third of Kendi’s book.
Whatever option you choose, your write-up should include:
At least six quotes from Kendi’s book (a minimum of two from each chapter you are analyzing, from the first third, middle third, and final third of the book). (You should make sure to include some new sections that you have not previously written about in previous Discussions.)
Three statistics from Kendi’s book (one from each of the three Kendi chapters you are analyzing). (These may overlap with the six minimum quotes, or may be in addition to them.)
At least one definition used by Kendi, and/or one example of parallelism or repetition, used by Kendi. (This may also overlap with your quotes, or may be in addition to them.) (This can be included anywhere in the write-up.)
All of these items should be used to help illustrate Kendi’s ideas in each of the three chapters you are analyzing. Your analysis should come together to make a larger overall point in your write-up, which can be expressed at the beginning and/or in the conclusion.
(Approx. 450-500 words, total; more is fine.)
