Online Assignment: October 22

Defining Terms: The genre of “Annotated bibliography” focuses not only on citing sources, but it also includes a brief summary/evaluation (annotation) of the source being cited. This style of citation is useful because it helps a researcher to evaluate sources more effectively since they need to summarize and analyze the main ideas in the source.

Practice part 1:

McIntosh, P. (1988). White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (Working Paper No. 189). Retrieved from http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf

Olsson, G [Black Power]. (2016, July 14). The Black Power Mixtape 1967 1975 [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bryh0IFMhg&feature=youtu.be

Practice part 2:

McIntosh discusses white privilege and how it gives white people an advantage while simultaneously gives black people a disadvantage. She begins by relating this conversation to male privilege, then broadens the conversation to white privilege. The author is speaking to white people and encouraging them to wake up and realize their privilege in this country. She uses her list of daily white privileges as a way to solidify all the advantages white people get that black people do not. This has been a systematic issue for centuries, which is why the author feels the need to bring it to people’s attention.

The Black Power mixtape delved into the black power movement and the fight for equal rights for African Americans in the United States in the late 60s and early 70s. The video shows footage from these years and includes influential leaders that were heavily involved and/or led the movement. The director is trying to convey the struggle that black people have been facing for decades, and how unfairly they have been treated, and how unfairly they continue to be treated. This video connects to the broader conversation of racial oppression and inequality in the U.S. by shedding light on past movements and fights for equality.

Discussion: I can apply today’s practice to project 2 because the assignment entails that we research sources and create an annotated bibliography that summarizes each source, discusses rhetoric, and ties in a broader conversation of race. It was difficult to shorten the summary of the sources since they included so much information, and I also had to think of how the two sources tied into a larger conversation of race. I was surprised at how much thought has to go into analyzing each source to get the best information to annotate it best. I have learned what is important when annotating a source.

Brainstorming: I am planning on researching the academic discipline of Business, specifically Finance. I am interested in asking how race affects investing, how it affects the workplace and who gets certain jobs in this field, and how does race affect income and wealth. I have begun gathering some ideas online, but I plan to search the databases on the library’s website to find scholarly articles or journals. I also plan on researching other forms of sources like videos. My next step is to continue researching and to narrow the conversation that I am investigating. I will probably narrow it down to one of the questions I asked earlier in this paragraph, such as “How race affects investing”.