Write an essay addressing the following:
Part 1. Is there systemic racism in the United States, California, San Luis Obispo, and Cuesta College? What is the evidence that suggests that systemic racism exists? What is the evidence that suggests that it does not? What is your assessment of the evidence? You can read this article http://www.slosheriff.org/UNITY_Committee_Systemic_Racism_Report.pdf (Links to an external site.) and look at this site for evidence https://libguides.cuesta.edu/21DayChallengeFall2020 (Links to an external site.) as well as other sources.
Part 2. Discuss the Critical Race Theory debate. You can start your research here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#Criticism (Links to an external site.). Are the criticisms of Critical Race Theory useful or not useful in understanding systemic racism? Explain.
Part 3. Are there other isms that are systemic as well? What is the evidence? Compare systemic racism with other isms. You should refer to lecture notes on rankism and weightism as well as other sources.
When citing sources, make sure you follow a standard style such as APA or MLA. Since this is a sociology class, you might want to learn the ASA style. Here are links describing the ASA style for in-text citations and reference page formatting. However, you can use any well-known style such as APA or MLA.
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/asa_style/in_text_citation_references.html
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/asa_style/references_page_formatting.html
