After carefully reading White Rage: The Unspoken Truth About Our Racial Divide OR Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, students are to craft a 1000-word book review in essay format. The four components you must address for this book review are:
- Content Summary- Give a detailed summary of the book’s themes, authorial intention, scope, method, and findings. (roughly 250 original words)
- Course Application- Link the book to at least one chapter AND document in both your textbook and reader, using MLA parenthetical citation where appropriate, to show where your course material coincided with the book. (~250 original words)
- Scholarly Conversation- Find at least one academic journal article from the TWU Library databases which discusses this book and analyze your academic source in light of your reading of the book. (~250 original words)
- Personal Reaction- Describe your personal reaction to the book’s content in light of our current political climate, personal experiences, thoughts, and research. (~250 original words)
Sources to be used parenthetically and cited in MLA format: Common read book, Course textbook, Course reader and individual primary documents, academic journal article. Please use the How to Cite Correctly in this Course guide posted for you in Canvas.
*Our textbook for this class is free, along with the reader that is used with it. It is https://www.americanyawp.com/ and the reader is https://www.americanyawp.com/reader.html. We have covered chapters 15-30 and any of those chapters can be used for quote and citation purposes.
My header information for the paper is:
Joni Adams
Dr. Monica Alfaro Rodriguez
HIST 1023-50
Final Essay
May 6, 2023
Review of, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent