Blog #10 – Powerpoint slides

The writing genre of an annotated bibliography seems to place somewhere in the research category of writing. This is because the paper is a compilation of several scholarly sources, along with context and a summary of each source, will all should have similar argument or thesis.

McIntosh, P. (1988). White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack. White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work In Women’s Studies. Retrieved from http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf

This research article discusses white privilege, specifically male privilege, and how males are taught not to recognize their own privilege in the workforce, in human interaction, and in everyday life. It lists scenarios of daily experience in which white privilege might be used unknowingly. The author, Peggy McIntosh, is an associate director of the Wellesley Collage Center for Research on Women, and her target audience is white males and women who may have experienced situations in which males have exercised their privilege. The purpose is for white males to realize how often they exercise their privilege in everyday life. The context for the paper is privileges that the author has observed over the decades. This paper has similarities to Oluo’s writing, and Oluo and McIntosh have shared viewpoints and experiences when it comes to witnessing male privilege in their lives.

Olsson, G. (2011, September 9). The Black Power Mixtape 1967 1975 [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bryh0IFMhg&feature=youtu.be

The Black Power Mixtape examines the Black Power movement from 1967 to 1975. The director is Goran Olsson, and the audience is those interested in learning more about the history of the Black Power Movement. The purpose of the video is to display the movement and the effect it had on the black community in terms of speaking out against racial inequality, and the context is a time when protest movements speaking out against racial inequality, including Martin Luther King’s movement, were gaining attention. This video relates to the Black Lives Matter movement which was discussed in Oluo’s writing, as both artifacts discuss systemic racism in a society ran by white people.

I can apply today’s work to my project 2 work as this was good exercise for the types of annotations I will be making for my project. It was difficult to synthesize the readings/viewings, as the articles and videos we’ve gone over contain similarities but don’t always directly correlate. This taught me about the structure and procedure that will be used for project two.

For project two, I plan on researching racial inequality in the workforce, specifically in the business field. I am interested in researching questions surrounding the difficulty of people of color to attain jobs in the business industry. I plan on getting started tomorrow, first by finding an array of scholarly articles/ videos that I may be able to use in my annotated bibliography, and then narrowing these resources down to those that pertain most closely to my overall question or argument.