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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