PSYC-3005-2,Racial and Ethnic Identities<br/><br/>Learning Resources<br/>Please

read and view (where applicable) the following Learning Resources before you complete this week’s assignments.
Reading

-Course Text: Rosenblum, K. E., &amp; Travis T. C. (2016). The meaning of difference: American constructions of race and ethnicity, sex and gender, social class, sexuality, and disability (7th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
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-Section IV, “Framework Essay”
-Section IV, Reading 56, “What Can We Do? Becoming a Part of the Solution”
-Section IV, Reading 58, “Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice”
-King, J. (2009). I Have a Dream Speech.I Have A Dream (Primary Source Document),1-3.(Retrieved from the Walden Library databases)week 6
Discussion 1 – Week 6COLLAPSE
Advocating for Social Change

Social change is needed to address issues of racial and ethnic inequality such as those that you considered in Week 5. In Reading 56, Allen G. Johnson discusses Gandhi’s Paradox which questions whether or not one person can make a difference in bringing about social change. This paradox suggests that one individual cannot make a difference, but that it is still important to make the effort. Social change requires the work of many people doing their parts. Along the same line, suggests strategies for influencing social change. Recommendations for creating talking points also are included in the reading. These strategies and recommendations can help you advocate for social change.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review  in the course text. Pay particular attention to the following:

• Identify a racial or ethnic issue that is of interest to or even passion for you and for which you might advocate.

• Think about what strategies that you might use to best advocate for your issue.

• Craft one main talking point that you would use to advocate for your issue.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 3 a description of the racial or ethnic issue for which you might advocate and explain why this issue is important to you. Explain how you would advocate for your issue, that is, what strategy(ies) might you use to advocate for it. Be specific. Also, articulate one main talking point that you might use to advocate for your cause.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

Respond by Day 5 to at least one of your colleagues’ postings. Be sure to respond to a colleague who selected a different age-related disease than you did. Respond in one or more of the following ways: