Week Four, January 29

9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Seminar on Hill, part 2.
Film: Struggles in Steel

Reading to have finished: Hill, part 2, and Gould article

What's due? Paper on Hill:

Option 1: Legal Scholars Derrick Bell and Cheryl Harris argue that "whiteness is property." How would Hill respond to this idea, and what evidence would you find in his book?
Option 2: Black workers are more likely than white workers to be union members and consistently express, in opinion polls, much more pro-union sentiment than white workers do. How do you reconcile this information with the picture of unions that Hill has presented? What can you find in Hill's work that might help you understand this?
Option 3: Review Hill's book for a labor or civil rights publication and tie it to the current issues about affirmative action. Find an actual publication of a union or a civil rights organization, and look it over to see how you would size up the audience. Keep your language and references attuned to your audience.

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