Poverty and Culture in the United States

Poverty and Culture Summer 2023 Midterm Due Monday, July 24 by 10:00 PM EDT Submit your final exam as a Word Doc to Canvas Worth 15 points total The midterm consists of two essays. For both essays you are expected to engage substantively with the class materials Essay One: Expected length at least four paragraphs or about 1,000 words minimum. Eight points. Do you think that poverty is inevitable under capitalism? Why or why not? What is racial capitalism and what are some of the ways that it has operated historically in the US? Draw on at least 4 class materials in formulating your response. Essay Two: Expected length at least three paragraphs or about 750 words minimum. 7 Points. Compare and contrast labor exploitation under sharecropping and tenant farming in the Jim Crow South with the Bracero Program in the Southwest. In your response, define labor. What do you think are the consequences of these programs for poverty in the US to this day? Draw on at least 3 class materials that you did not use for essay one in formulating your response. Both essays must: • Use 12 Point Font, Double Spaced, Regular Margins. • Include in-text citations in parentheses (author last name, page number, for texts; title for podcasts) any time you use a quotation or cite information that is not common knowledge. You can also use footnotes. • Include a list of works cited at the end of EACH essay. Use Chicago Manual of Style. See: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html and https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/chicago_manual_17th_edition/cmos_f ormatting_and_style_guide/chicago_manual_of_style_17th_edition.html • You can only use assigned materials listed on the Syllabus. You CANNOT conduct outside research. • This is an individual exam; you cannot work on it with others. • ChatGPT can NOT be used for any part of this exam. • Because you have limited space, prioritize supporting your arguments with clear evidence. Try to be as specific and detailed as possible. Limit your use of direct quotations and instead put the material into your own words.