Race still Matters

For this essay, you will continue to work with three sources: 1. Agustín Fuentes, “The Myth of Race,” from Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human NatureNikole Hannah-Jones, “School Segregation, the Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson”A popular source that you choose from an MCCC Library database. Your third source must be a newspaper or magazine article; it must be intended for adult readers; it will provide examples you can analyze to address the assignment. (See the “research” journal assignment for more details about finding and choosing your third source.) This assignment asks you to continue testing and evaluating Fuentes’s claim that “in our society the social categories of race are a reality that affects our lives” (645). (For more explanation, see the 1st draft assignment.) To assess the validity of Fuentes’s claim, you will analyze examples from two other sources. Connect evidence from Fuentes’s chapter, Nikole Hannah-Jones’s article “School Segregation, the Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson,” and a third source to address one of the options below