Wealth as a Tool of Dispossession and Marginalization
Wealth has been used as a political, social, and cultural technology for structuring race, class, and gender.
Write 3-5 page paper explaining what wealth is, according to the authors of The Color of Wealth. Then, using the authors’ perspectives, explain how wealth in the U.S. has dispossessed and marginalized the groups discussed in The Color of Wealth.
This assignment satisfies SLO 1.
Submission Requirements and Tips
Please, no long decorative introductions or endings. The introduction should say what the paper is about and how you are going to carry it out. Then follow what you say that you are going to do. That is all the introduction does. I don’t want decorative introductions into the introduction, or non-supported claims. Organization counts
Formatting: Double-spaced, 11 or 12 point font/Times New Roman/Indented paragraphs.
(Now that said, formatting does not seem to hold on Canvas. Do not worry about it. Hopefully you can upload your Word Doc as well. No pdfs!
Citations. Authors, date, and page, the first time. Second time you cite an author, the date and page. You can cite right in the text. E.g., (Smith, 2012, p. 30). Then provide a bibliography at the end of the paper, with author’s name, date, title, publisher. (Use the style sheet of your choice to determine the order in which you want to provide this material.) (You can go over the page limit when doing this. That is, if the paper is 3 pages max., the bibliography can appear on a fourth page.
The important thing regarding quotations is this. I don’t want a lot of them or long ones. You should be able to explain what you cite. Stick to one or two sentences when quoting, and make sure I understand that you understand what the quote means. Sometimes students know how to cut and paste the right material without knowing what it means.
Final paragraph: sum up the major points. No new ideas.
In general:
Support all substantive claims with evidence that the authors’ provide.
This paper is not about expressing your ideas; it is about demonstrating that you can explain the authors’ ideas.
When you introduce terms, e.g., income, explain them following the authors, not outside materials. That includes dictionaries. (No dictionaries).
Give a lot of thought to how you want to organize your text. Try writing an outline.
Answer all of the questions that I ask, not just the ones that you want to answer. That might sound absurd, but I have had students who answer only some of the questions and tell me that they didn’t have time or didn’t feel like answering some of the other questions.
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Organization
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Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar/Written Expressions, Citations
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Following Instructions
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Accuracy
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