Group assignments
Guidelines

Readings (all short!):

1. Peggy McIntosh. 1988. White privilege:Unpacking the invisible knapsack. Excerpted from "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's
   Studies." Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. Working paper no. 189.
2. Jesse Wills. 2000. How we measure poverty. Oregon Center for Public Policy, February.
3. Arloc Sherman and Chad Stone. Income gaps between very rich and everyone else more than tripled in the last decades, new data show. June 25, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
4. Alfred W. Evans. 2010. Letter to Sen. Tom Coburn ('Put me in charge'). Nov 18, Waco Tribune Herald. (last letter on the page)
5. US Conference of Catholic Bishops. 2004. Poverty tour, USA. Online at http://old.usccb.org/cchd/povertyusa/tour.htm

Assignment:

• 150 to 200 - word abstract.
• At the top, put the citations for the articles you read.
• Briefly summarize the articles (2-3 sentences for each).
• Relate the articles to the class (why do you think we're reading them?)

In Zabel 256: We'll watch Inside Job