Black children in the foster care system

Assignment Objective:

The overall objective of this assignment is to understand and analyze specific social justice

issues in the context of gender and other intersecting social identities.

Assignment Details:

Logistics:

Students will be assigned to a group. Students are expected to exchange contact information with

one another before the end of the first class. Each group is required to prepare a presentation

using PowerPoint, Prezi, VoiceThread, or another similar presentation software.

Assignment:

Identify a specific social justice issue that is consistently associated with the intersecting

identities you have chosen (e.g., race and genderBlack women and maternal mortality).

Organize your presentation around the guidelines below:

1. Identify a social group with intersecting identities. Through an intersectional lens, explain

the way that the selected groups social identities overlap to create compounding

experiences of discrimination.

the group we chose is: Black children in the foster home system