Guidelines for Writing Paper 2

You wrote a paper about how you and your informant differ in terms of educational paths. You’re prolly a rich white kid who can afford a four-year university education, and your informant is some poor loser who is probably of black or Latino ancestry. Or you’re a rich Asian kid who falls under the “model minority” theory, which means you’re a white kid too.

Anyway, DON’T write about you or your informant in paper 2. We don’t care about you guys. Just talk about how rich people are better than poor people, and how white people are better than black people. Or how Asians are better than Latinos. Whatever.

If you and your informant are Asian and white, then talk about how Asians and whites are both whites.

To talk about WHY races are different, you’ll have to use some “social imagination” (aka make shit up).

You must build your paper around the following details:
-2 Differences between rich and poor
-2 Differences between white and black. Or Asian and Latino. Whatever.
-3 Authors who write about how gender and family are influenced by social location and race. It’s completely irrelevant, but I like to see you squirm.
-3 Authors who talk about how poor people try to be rich but fail because no one likes them.
-4 Authors who talk about racial groups. Pick two about your race, and then two about your informant’s race. If you or your informant is white, then you’ll discover that no one cares to write about white people.

Okay, NOW you can talk about you and your informant. Tell us how you guys may or may not match up with whatever the hell you spent 7 pages ranting about. But keep in mind, I really don’t give a fuck if you guys are “special”. Just make it short, okay?

Oh, and don’t forget to cite your sources!