3500–Word Comparative Essay
What is Baldwins’ and Collins’ analysis of Racial injustice?
– Find a point of contrast
– Reflection: what’s interesting, confusing, wrong; find hooks.
– Addressing a central theme.
– It is a comparative essay, but it should not be descriptive. Create a
theme/question based on their work.
– Demonstrate what’s interesting or confusing, etc
– The 2 chosen thinkers are provided below with its main themes and the
sources are also given – please use the given sources + additional sources
can be used if it gives value to the essay/argument.
The Chosen Thinkers:
1– James Baldwins
The fire next time
• Analyse Baldwin’s account of the tension between integrationist and
separatist responses to racial injustice by Black Americans.
• Evaluate Baldwin’s analysis of the role of religion in fostering racial
injustice in the United States.
• Evaluate Baldwin’s claim that it is the duty of White and Black Americans
to come together to overcome racial injustice.
2– Patricia Hill Collins
Black Feminist Thought
• Identify the meaning of “black feminist thought” and the reasons it has
been obscured and marginalised in the context of American political
thought – link to racial injustice.
• Analyse the way that Black women’s oppression devalues their
intellectual and political activism.
What is Baldwins’ and Collins’ analysis of Racial injustice?
– Find a point of contrast
– Reflection: what’s interesting, confusing, wrong; find hooks.
– Addressing a central theme.
– It is a comparative essay, but it should not be descriptive. Create a
theme/question based on their work.
– Demonstrate what’s interesting or confusing, etc
– The 2 chosen thinkers are provided below with its main themes and the
sources are also given – please use the given sources + additional sources
can be used if it gives value to the essay/argument.
The Chosen Thinkers:
1– James Baldwins
The fire next time
• Analyse Baldwin’s account of the tension between integrationist and
separatist responses to racial injustice by Black Americans.
• Evaluate Baldwin’s analysis of the role of religion in fostering racial
injustice in the United States.
• Evaluate Baldwin’s claim that it is the duty of White and Black Americans
to come together to overcome racial injustice.
2– Patricia Hill Collins
Black Feminist Thought
• Identify the meaning of “black feminist thought” and the reasons it has
been obscured and marginalised in the context of American political
thought – link to racial injustice.
• Analyse the way that Black women’s oppression devalues their
intellectual and political activism.
