People of color (POC) and/or LGBTQ people

Write a well-developed, thesis driven essay responding to ONE of the following prompts. You must use quotes from at least 3 of the articles you read to support your argument. Use research from 5 outside source in your essay. You must include at least 3 counter-arguments. Make sure you use both scholarly articles and the articles you read from ReReading America to support your arguments.

You will also attach to the back of your essay a visual project. The visual project will be a picture that you either find on the internet or take yourself which represents your essay’s central thesis. Following the picture you will need to give a brief (175-200 word) argumentative paragraph about how the image represents your thesis.

Research the status of women, people of color (POC) and/or LGBTQ people in the field or profession you plan to pursue. Discuss the struggles of women, POC and gender queer people in that field and how their status affects their salaries, compensation and quality of life compared to their male-hetero counter-parts, with similar credentials and experience, in their field. Explore the ratio of women, POC and gender queer people to hetero males in the field as a whole, in entry-level positions, and in executive or high-status positions and how inequities and gender gaps might affect women, POC and gender queer peoples in that field. Interview at least one non-hetero, Anglo-American male in this line of work and write about their views and experience as they relate to their work place struggles. How is what you have learned about this field and the attitudes towards these groups reflect what you have learned from the authors in this chapter?