1. From Week 2, retrieve your Family History Project interview and notes to answer the following questions.

   • Did anything you learn from the Family History Project help you to see your life, your own biography differently? Use specific examples from their interview to explain.

   • Based on the responses of the person you interviewed, how would you describe their experiences with race? How were those experiences “socially constructed”?

2. Watch the YouTube video, “The Myth of Race, Debunked in 3 Minutes.” Watch the 1989 hip hop video by Boogie Down Productions, “You Must Learn”. Reflect on readings and discussions learned in Week 2 and 3.

   • Identify the specific moments these videos have in common.

   • What do you identify as the overall theme to both of these videos?

3. Listen to the podcast and read “Why Now, White People?” by Gene Demby and staff members of NPR. Reflect on readings and discussions learned in Week 4.

   • Summarize the specific examples that the podcast and article give as to why “white people” have awoken to racial injustice in the summer of 2020?

The article and podcast conclude with the idea, “So while much of the conceptual space and groundwork for this moment was laid by black organizers, these messages suggest that much of this political foment

• among white people is happening because of contact with other white people.” Why is this problematic? What is the concern about white people’s commitment to fighting racism?

2. Watch the video “Pocahontas Was a Mistake, and Here’s Why!” by Lindsay Ellis (on YouTube). Consider readings and discussions learned in Week 5.

   • Detail the examples Ellis provides of Disney appropriation of Indigenous culture in movies.

   • Does Ellis believe that corporate values and ideas about cultural appropriation are changing?

3. Thinking about Week 6, read “There Was No Other Way” a fictional account of the Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Write a short story accounting for a day in the life of a slave using some of the information we’ve read and viewed in class. (Note: Questions #5 and #6 cannot be both answered. Choose one)

4. Read “There Was No Other Way” a fictional account of the Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, thinking about Week 6. Summarize the excerpt and explain how these stories are representative of “agency” slaves had in their quest to escape slavery.

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