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Take-Home Exam #2:
MLK, X, and Philosophy
SPR 2018
General Instructions: Your completed exam must be turned in to me—via online drop box—by 11:59pm on Monday, May 7, 2018. Please type your responses—double-spaced with one-inch margins. The exam is worth 100 points. ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS and CITE using Chicago formatted footnotes.
- Compare and contrast Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
- In your answering of this question, you must do the following:
- Find and discuss original quotes from both X and King that articulate their ideas about:
- Slavery
- Black identity
- America
- Economics
- Integration
- Find original quotes from two members of the Black Panther Party and two from James Baldwin about Malcolm X and MLK after their death. Discuss what these quotes say about the legacy of King and X.
- Find and discuss original quotes from both X and King that articulate their ideas about:
- In your answering of this question, you must do the following:
- Quote Cone in the course of your answers.
- How have America’s ideas about race changed since the 1960s?
- How have our ideas of blackness changed?
- What impact did MLK have on our ideas about what black men and women can and cannot accomplish in this country?
- What impact did X have on our ideas about what black men and women can and cannot accomplish?
- Of the two, MLK and X, whose ideas are the most influential today? Why?
Note: A minimum of five pages is expected.