TOPIC 9.7 CAUSATION 1980-PRESENT

The Case for Reparations - Video SAQ

Unit 9: Learning Objective G Explain the relative significance of the effects of change in the period after 1980 on American national identity.

Objective: Students will identify a claim in a non-text-based source and evaluate how evidence was used to support an argument.

This Key Concept in an Antiracist classroom:

But black history does not flatter American democracy; it chastens it. Black nationalists have always perceived something unmentionable about America that integrationists dare not acknowledge—that white supremacy is not merely the work of hotheaded demagogues, or a matter of false consciousness, but a force so fundamental to America that it is difficult to imagine the country without it. - Ta-Nehisi Coates, "The Case for Reparations"

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article “The Case for Reparations” is considered the most widely read argument on the topic of reparations in American history.

Notes

This SAQ gives students valuable practice at identifying a claim and making comparisons. It also is a powerful way to review key content and wrap up the curriculum at the end of the course.

After students complete writing the SAQ, we discuss the meaning of the phrase, "Fair Weather Patriotism."