Community Report

For this assignment, choose one local community organization that is dedicated to some social, cultural or artistic purpose that addresses at least one of the social inequalities explained in our course materials.

Some basic organization types to think about might include ones that were founded to address:

  • art/environment exposure to various populations
  • battered families
  • educational attainment
  • ethnic empowerment
  • foster care
  • gender empowerment
  • homelessness
  • immigrant & refugee transition
  • LGBT support
  • medical/surgery assistance
  • small business backing
  • workers rights

Please do not choose an organization that you are already involved in, as your previous engagement with the organization may constrict the capacity to learn and to critically asses the organization.
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Through the organization’s own material, what others may have written about it, and if possible, your own interviews with members of the organization, prepare a report which describes:

The report should discuss but not be limited to the following:

  • Intro:
    • the name of the organization,
    • description of the organization: its sources of funding, its organizational structure, whether it is a profit or nonprofit group, its history
  • Thesis (KEY!):
    • the explanation of SOC 350-related social issue(s) that the organization addresses
  • “Angles” (aka body paragraphs)
    • the types of activities it supports,
    • who the organization serves and whether the population that is recipient to the services are involved in leadership and decision making of the organization
    • how the organization works to contest and/or ameliorate the consequences of inequality.
  • Conclusion:
    • stated purpose of the organization and your assessment of how well the organization meets the purpose


The most important part of the assignment is its analytic focus, i.e., discuss how the purpose, function, or other aspects of this organization reflect the major themes or ideas about cultural diversity and inequality that we are studying in this class.
Be specific.

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The Community Report is intended to be an integrative essay; you should demonstrate that you are able to discuss the various concepts covered in SOC 350 in an informed academic fashion. Students are are expected to connect a wide range of various SOC 350 sources across different themes and units (particularly the readings from Unit 4), with your own outside research.

Use of sources: Please use a wide range of research from SOC 350 and outside = there should be at least 2-3 different SOC 350-related sources per angle.
This means a cohesive mix of text, web source, and the outside sources you examine, such as the organization’s web site, its partner links, media articles, press releases, and other scholarly journal or book articles on your organization’s focus.

Critical Analysis: Do not merely copy+paste quotes from materials into your Report.
Instead, synthesize and interpret the information in your own words, using properly cited resources that you build upon with your analysis. Be sure to cite the source of all information that is not common knowledge.
Again, do not import materials directly from the organizations materials (copy+paste), but rather, apply SOC 350 course ideas and information, describe and analyze, and explain your findings in your original writing.

 

SOC 350 overview

 

Module 1:   theory 

  1. Part I Introduction: The Social Construction of Difference: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality, Paula Rothenberg, pp. 7-12
  2. Imagine a Country, 2012, Holly Sklar, pp. 324-334
  3. Domination & Subordination,  Jean Baker Miller, pp. 110-116
  4. Oppression, Marilyn Frye, pp. 149-152
  5. The Problem of Discrimination, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, pp. 263-273
  6. Defining Racism: “Can We Talk?”, Beverly Daniel Tatum, pp. 125-132
  7. Constructing Race, Creating White Privilege, Pem Davidson Buck, pp. 33-38
  8. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh, pp. 175–179
  9. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Annette Lareau, pp. 180-188

 

Module 2:   social class

  1. Class in America: 2012, Gregory Mantsios, pp. 189-207
  2. Deconstructing the Underclass, Herbet Gans, pp. 104-109
  3. “Nickel and Dimed” from The American Ruling Class (about 10 mins), Bill Moyers
  4. Cause of Death: Inequality, Alejandro Reuss, pp. 389-393
  5. Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid, Jonathan Kozol, pp. 627-640
  6. College Choices Are Limited for Students From Needy Families, Report Says, Stephen Burd,  pp. 308-309
  7. Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on Engineered Inequality (36:01), Bill Moyers
  8. The Making of the American 99% and the Collapse of the Middle Class, Barbara  Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich,  pp. 350-354
  9. Wealth Gaps Rise To Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics: Twenty-to-One, Kochhar, Fry, & Taylor,  pp. 355-361

Module 3:   race: creating and maintaining the color line

  1. “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” (11:58), Michelle Alexander
  2. Arrest of Black Men (5:47), Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  3. A Class Divided (46:00), Frontline
  4. The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch, Richard Wright, pp. 23-32
  5. The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia: “Using Objects of Intolerance to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice”
  • Scroll through “The Museum and exhibits” tabs
  • Scroll through menu
  • NOTE: these are highly sensitive images via photo/video.
  1. C.P. Ellis, Studs Terkel, pp. 482-492
  2. Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America,
  1. The Black Codes, W.E.B. Du Bois, pp. 532-539
  2. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857, pp. 524–527
  3. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954, pp. 556–560

 

Module 4:   race: ethnicity and nationality

  1. Racial Formations, Michael Omi and Howard Winant, pp. 13-22
  2. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of America, Mae Ngai, pp. 224-234
  3. Smells Like Racism, Rita Chaudhry Sethi, pp. 141-148
  4. Immigration’s Aftermath, Alejandro Portes, pp. 397-400
  5. Color-Blind Racism, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, pp. 133-140
  6. Part VII Introduction: How it Happened: Race and Gender Issues in U.S. Law, pp. 493-500
  7. Nina Jablonski Breaks the Illusion of Skin Color (14:48), Ted Talks
  8. RACE – The Power of an Illusion, PBS
    • Click on the “Learn More” button to work through the Modules
  9. Civilize Them with a Stick, Mary Brave Bird (Crow Dog) and Richard Erodes, pp. 410-413
  10. Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest . . ., U.S. Commission on Human Rights, p. 499-503
  11. For Many Latinos, Racial Identity is More Culture than Color, Mireya Navarro, pp. 238-241
  12. People v. Hall, 1854, pp. 522-523
  13. Yellow, Frank Wu, pp. 422-425
  14. How Jews Became White Folks:  and What That Says About Race in America, Karen Brodkin, 39-53
  15. Then Came the War, Yuri Kochiyama, pp. 414-421
  16. Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites
    • Click through the Menu items on the left
  17. Presumed Guilty: American Muslims and Arabs (28:56), Making Contact: National Radio Project
  18. The Arab Woman and I, Mona Fayad, pp. 426-427

Module 5:   gender

  1. The Cult of Domesticity and True Womanhood lecture, Professor Catherine Lavender, The College of Staten Island of CUNY
  2. “Night to His Day”: The Social Construction of Gender, Judith Lorber, pp. 54-65
  3. Patriarchy, Allan Johnson, pp. 153–162
  4. Sexism, Strength & Dominance: Images of Masculinity in Disney Films (6:52), Sanjay Newton
  5. Women’s Suffrage Documentary (6:22)
  6. Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848, pp. 513–16
  7. United States Constitution: 19th Amendment, 1920, p. 550
  8. The Equal Rights Amendment (Defeated), p. 562
  9. Study: Median Wealth for Single Black Women: $100, Single Hispanic Women: $120, Single White Women: $41,000 (20:02), Democracy Now!
  10. Homophobia As a Weapon of Sexism, Suzanne Pharr, pp. 163-172

 

Module 6:   sexuality

  1. The Social Construction of Sexuality, Ruth Hubbard, pp. 66-69
  2. The Invention of Homosexuality, Jonathan Ned Katz, pp. 70-81
  3. Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity, Michael S. Kimmel, pp. 82-93
  4. Zach Wahls Speaks About Family (3:01)
  5. The Case of Sharon Kowalski and Karen Thompson: Ableism, Heterosexism,and Sexism, Joan L. Griscom, pp. 472-480
  6. Anti-Gay Stereotypes, Richard D. Mohr, pp. 585-591
  7. It’s Time to End Marriage Ad(1:56), GetUp! (from Australia)
  8. Why Transgender Identity Matters, Rebecca Juro, pp. 283-285

Module 7:   mechanisms of oppression

  1. Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes, Mark Snyder, pp. 579-584
  2. Facing the Consequences: An Examination of Racial Discrimination in U.S. Public Schools, Applied Research Center
  3. Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse, Sut Jhally, pp. 603- 610
  4. The Plutocratic Culture: Institutions, Values, and Ideologies, Michael Parenti, pp. 611-617
  5. Media Magic: Making Class Invisible, Gregory Mantsios, pp. 618-626
  6. Masked Racism: Reflections On the Prison Industrial Complex, Angela Davis, pp. 641-645
  7. More Blacks Live With Pollution, Associated Press, pp. 315-317

 

Module 8:   towards the future….

    1. Interrupting the Cycle of Oppression: The Role of Allies as Agents of Change, Andrea Ayvazian, pp. 672-678
    2. Rethinking Volunteerism in America, Gavin Leonard, pp. 679-682
    3. Beyond Elections: People Power, Mark Bittman, pp. 686-688
    4. Demand the Impossible, Matthew Rothschild, pp.689-691

 

 

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