Political Science: Race, Ethnicity and Politics

Be Sure to cite the source of the political text including a URL in your works cited- Be
sure to engage class readings in your analysis (at least two from class readings!!)
Sources: Two From Class Readings and One Political Text from Newspapers such as
New York Times, etc-.!! (Also attached the instruction as a document file)

Instruction:

Topic: the use of racist language, racially coded appeals, or language that promotes
racial stereotypes frequently appears in political text and communications in American
politics. Your task is to write a paper analyzing the language in an episode of political
text. Political text is defined widely including speeches, comments, and press
conferences by elected officials and political candidates for elected office, campaign
ads, executive orders, laws, legislative bills, press releases, and party platforms. The
specific components of the prompt are listed below.

1) Identify an episode of political text to analyze. The Text must have occurred between
the year 2000 and the present moment in 2017. This will requ’re doing some external
research to identify a piece of political text.

2) Describe the language and/ or imagery in the political text.

3) Analyze they ways in which the language and/ or imagery in the text uses racist
language, creates or reinforces racial stereotypes, and/ or uses racially coded
language.

4) Be sure to engage class readings and class material in your analysis-

5) Lastly, discuss the political and social implications of the usage of this kind of
language and/ or imagery in your political text