Race and Your Community

Prepare a 1,400- to 1,750-word autobiographical research paper that analyzes the influences of race as it relates to your community. In your paper, write your first-person account of how human interactions in your community have been racialized. For the community, you can consider relations within your neighborhood, local government, service groups, clubs, schools, workplace, or any environment of which you are a part. In your paper, be sure to answer and provide examples for the following core questions: o Do members of your community look like you? In what ways do they look the same or different? o How do leaders within your community treat people who are like you? How do they treat people who are different? o How do other members of your community treat people who are like you? How do they treat people who are different? o Do your texts or work manuals contain information by or about people like you? o Do the local media represent people like you? If so, in what ways? o What are some similarities and differences between you and the people who are in leadership positions in your community? Do you feel minority group interests are represented within your community? o If you could resolve any inequities within your community, what would you change?
How and why? o Which main concepts from the text relate to race? Apply some of these concepts to your project.
ETH 125 Cultural Diversity
Course Syllabus Page 24
• Ensure the following elements are included: o The thesis addresses racial issues in your local community. o The content is comprehensive and accurate. o The paper itself draws on your personal experiences with and opinions about cultural diversity in your community. o Three sources are used, and one source is a community member, leader, or representative from a local community organization. o The paper is written in first-person point of view, with an autobiographical approach. o Text concepts are applied to your observations.
o