The short story The Cask of Amontillado and the article Sociology’s Race Problem both deal with power, just in different ways. In the story, Montresor has full control over Fortunato and uses it to trick and kill him, even though we never really know if Fortunato actually did anything that serious. It shows how someone can abuse power just because they feel justified. In the article, the power is not physical but more intellectual, where sociology studies Black people in a way that can reduce them to data instead of seeing them as real individuals. It is not violent like the story, but it still has real effects on how…