CUNY Lehman College Racial Discrimination Essay

Please answer all six essay questions. Address all parts of the question. Write three paragraphs, approximately 5 sentences each and provide at least three citations from the readings, lectures or videos in your response to each question. Use conventional academic conventions (either MLA or APA) for your citations.Question 14 pts

1. Native women have the highest rate of rape, surpassing that of any other race in the US. Based on Deere and Smith as well as my video lectures describe the particularities of the rape of native women. Use the questions below to structure your essay.

1. What is the logic of elimination and how is it associated with the extreme rate of rape of native women?
2. What are some of the unique characteristics of the rape of native women?
3. What role has the federal government played in the impunity of rape in tribal lands?
4. How are native women dealing with the massive rapes?

2. The rape of indigenous and enslaved African women has all to do with conquest and colonization. But the colonizer chose different strategies to oppress and exploit natives and enslaved African peoples. Based on Deere, Smith, Odubowi, King, and the video lectures write an essay responding to the set of questions below:

1. What were the strategies to oppress enslaved Africans and how did they differ from the ones used to oppress natives?
2. How did enslaved African women experience sexual violence, and what purpose did it serve? Who were their victimizers?
3. What was the legal framework to address this sexual violence during the colonial era?
4. What does Mendoza refer to as the colonial conundrum?

3. Emancipation in 1863 and Reconstruction did not end the violence against Blacks. During the Jim Crow era (1877-1964), the rape of Black women continued, and the practice of lynching became widespread. Based on Feimster and Hopkins, and the video lectures, write an essay answering the following questions:

1. Why is history important? Why does historical trauma and the epigenetic explanation help us understand Black suffering today? What is meant by historical continuities and discontinuities?
2. What was the practice of lynching and who were the victimizers and victims? What role did it play in the Jim Crow era?
3. Why were white women also lynched during the Jim Crow era?
4. What is the correlation between the lynching of yesterday, police brutality and mass incarceration today? How does it entail a historical continuity?

4. The US has the largest incarceration rate in the world. It also incarcerates women like no other nation in the planet. Write an essay based on the articles of Angela Davis, Angela J. Hattery & Earl Smith. and my lecture answering the following questions:

1. What is the prison industrial complex? What groups in society are mostly affected by it? What is its purpose and how have we come to accept such levels of incarceration of people?

2. How are women and in particular women of color affected by the prison industrial complex? What is the sexual abuse to prison pipeline?

3. What does the War on Drugs have to do with mass incarceration?

4. What can we do to end mass incarceration?

5. The race state has formulated different strategies to oppress natives, Blacks and Latinx peoples for centuries. Latinx peoples are usually associated with immigration issues and are seen as foreigners. What gets lost in this framework are the centuries of US imperialism in Latin America. Write an essay based on Gomez, Villalon and my video lectures to answer the following questions?

1. What are the strategies to oppress Latinx peoples and how do they differ from that of the oppression of natives and Blacks?
2. How and why does US imperialism produce massive immigration from Latin America?
3. How are Latinas affected by racist and sexist immigration policies in the US?
4. What strategies do you think natives, Blacks and Latinx people should develop to unify and end their oppression and exploitation by the US?

6. The race state has formulated different strategies to oppress natives, Blacks and Latinx peoples for centuries. Latinx peoples are usually associated with immigration issues and are seen as foreigners. What gets lost in this framework are the centuries of US imperialism in Latin America. Write an essay based on Gomez, Villaron and my video lectures to answer the following questions?

1. Why and how does US intervention or US imperialism produce mass migration from Latin America?
2. What are the strategies used to oppress Latinx peoples and how do they differ from that of the oppression of natives and Blacks?
3. How are Latinas affected by racist and sexist immigration policies in the US?
4. What strategies do you think natives, Blacks and Latinx people should develop to unify and end their oppression and exploitation by the US?