What does it mean to be a community?

Humanities

Please use the linked two readings – Alex Carp’s “Slavery and the American University” and Jay Caspian Kang’s “What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity” – to answer the following question. Support your answer with your own close analysis of quotes and ideas from both texts. In this paper, please focus on engaging in close readings of the text to identify assumptions and implications, and on thinking about the audience for each piece, as well as perhaps the conversations and constituencies they might relate to or open up.

Alex Carp says that universities’ attempts to grapple with their histories “create what one historian described as “the constituencies for different kinds of conversations.”” Jay Caspian Kang says, “Asians are the loneliest Americans. The collective political consciousness of the ’80s has been replaced by the quiet, unaddressed isolation that comes with knowing that you can be born in this country, excel in its schools and find a comfortable place in its economy and still feel no stake in the national conversation.” What does it mean to be a community? How might the kinds of conversations discussed by Carp and Kang affect communities?

In order to answer the question you have to read/skim through two articles

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/02/07/slavery-a…

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/magazine/what-a…

After you read these articles the question is not that complicated.

Format: Papers must be at least 5 full pages in length, double-spaced, typed in a 12-pt. Times New Roman, stapled and have 1-inch margins. Papers must be spell-checked. Please ensure that your word processing program’s language is set to American English for this assignment. Headers, page numbers, and quotations should be formatted according to the guidelines available in Keys for Writers.