1 Based on the flim, The Two Killings of Sam Cooke, briefly assess the antiracist contributions of Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Malcolm X. How does Cooke compare in influence, both actual and potential, compared to the other three? 2 How and why did Brown v. The Board of Education (1954) leave intact most of America’s race-based school segregation? How did Dowell v. Oklahoma City (1991) undermine much of the relatively little progress Brown facilitated? 3 How and why did racial quotas first filter into and then out of Affirmative Action policies? What role does social class and LGBTQ status play in Affirmative Action policies? 4 Based upon what you know, how racist, if at all, is the University Saint Joseph (1) as an institution and (2) as a community of people? 5Based upon what you learned from the posted video interview about Hartford area real estate steering and housing segregation, how racist do you consider regional housing policies past and present? 6The United States is far more unequal than any comparable country. Briefly assess the role of each of the following in creating and maintaining such extreme inequality: capitalist economics, pluralist government, and racist society. Are any of these three contributing factors largely attributable to one or both of the other two? (Follow up on this conversation when disagreements among classmates become evident.) 7American deindustrialization has increased dramatically over the past 70 years. Would this have been possible without increasing American imperialism and neo-imperialism (the exploitation of the peoples of poorer nations by richer countries)? To what extent is neo-imperialism a source of racism at home as well as internationally? 8 How does racism in education and housing policies contribute to racism in labor market policies? What are the prevalent American labor market policies?