Please see term paper prompt! (ATTACHED)
You are required to watch the documentary “13th” on Netflix for this assignment. If you are
unable to access Netflix, please contact me and I will make arrangements for you to see the
documentary.
As you engage with this documentary through your review, consider the following:
• What is meant by “13th”? What does it refer to?
• What are the main themes of the work?
• What “facts” did you find most interesting, provocative, or problematic? Why?
• What “analytic assertions” did you find most interesting, provocative, or problematic?
Why?
• What remains unclear after you watch the 1 hour and 40 minute documentary? That is,
what else should the documentary have addressed that is related to its major themes?
• What is your intellectual reaction to the work?
• What is your emotional reaction to the work?
• Would you recommend this documentary? Why or why not?
• Finally, as a short epilogue, explain how Nina Simone’s song Mississippi Goddam
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM) relates to the documentary 13th.