The book Who We Be presents an aestheticized history of the United States through the lens of race. By focusing on the cultural products created and the spaces in which they were created, Chang is able to show how art becomes an expression of racial struggle and solidarity. This is important to understanding our society, one crossed through with segregation and caste hierarchies. By recognizing art as a representation of history, of the social milieu, we then must learn to interpret meaning, a very human act. And this connects us to colorblind ideology, which is based on interpreting racist disavowals of racism. Or how a multicultural history becomes a history of multiple meanings of America, and multiple ways of sharing who we are. Understand this exercise as one that takes the sociological imagination toward interpretive understanding, answer the following questions: How is Changs approach distinct from a cultural product expressing colorblind ideology? How does Changs history continue the multicultural history that Takaki develops? Understanding your answer to 1 and 2, what do you think the future is for the US racial caste system? Economically, politically, culturally? This paper like the others before it, only has to cite this book and/or the articles we read in class, except if you bring in outside sources. It should be 5 pages. Focus on placing Changs work within the class discussion weve had all semester. And through that, you will best be able to think out question 3, which should be more inventive on your part.

The book Who We Be presents an aestheticized history of the United States through the lens of race. By focusing on the cultural products created and the spaces in which they were created, Chang is able to show how art becomes an expression of racial struggle and solidarity. This is important to understanding our society, one crossed through with segregation and caste hierarchies. By recognizing art as a representation of history, of the social milieu, we then must learn to interpret meaning, a very human act. And this connects us to colorblind ideology, which is based on interpreting racist disavowals of racism. Or how a multicultural history becomes a history of multiple meanings of America, and multiple ways of sharing who we are. Understand this exercise as one that takes the sociological imagination toward interpretive understanding, answer the following questions:



How is Changs approach distinct from a cultural product expressing colorblind ideology?
How does Changs history continue the multicultural history that Takaki develops?
Understanding your answer to 1 and 2, what do you think the future is for the US racial caste system? Economically, politically, culturally?


This paper like the others before it, only has to cite this book and/or the articles we read in class, except if you bring in outside sources. It should be 5 pages. Focus on placing Changs work within the class discussion weve had all semester. And through that, you will best be able to think out question 3, which should be more inventive on your part.