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Gender, race and class
Module 2
ANNOUNCEMENT
Module 1
Autobiography
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Module 2
What struck you most from this module's readings?
Essentialism versus constructivism
What's in a name?
"shifting the center", "reconstructing knowledge"
Exclusionary versus inclusive thinking
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Module 3
1. Why is Childer's article titled "the parrot or the pitbull"? Compare your impression of the American class society with the American working-class life presented in this paper.
2. What does Kahlenberg tell us about social mobility in the US? Are the facts consistent with or contrary to the popular discourse of equal opportunity?
3. What struck you most from this module's readings?
Module 4a
1. What is race? Why does race matter, according to West?
2. Why is there a need for a structural interpretation of racism, according to Bonilla-Silva? What are the limitations of the idealist views of racism?
3. How does skin color work as social capital and as stratifying agent? (refer to Hunter's article)
Module 4b
4. What is it about whiteness that makes it the "unmarked" category? (refer to Frankenberg's article)
5. Discuss the following statement: "White beauty is based on black ugliness." Find evidence to validate or contradict such statement.
6. Explore the following idea discussed in Kibria's article: "the powerful has the capability to define the powerless." How does the dominant racial group define the Asian Americans? What are the implication of such conception?
Module 5
1. What arguments support gender as the main (in comparison to class and race) organizing principle in social systems? (Cite readings)
2. Compare the different authors' (Hartmann, Firestone, Blood et al.) views about the roots of women's subordination? Comment on Firestone's sexual class revolution.
3. How is corporate capitalism supported by sexism (refer to Peter Blood's article)
4. Are US women bound by their similarities or divided by their differences? Find supporting evidence.
module 6
1. Discuss the contributions of the the two articles in this module with regard to existing conceptualizations of the intersection of gender, race, and class?
2. Discuss the importance of the intersections approach in examining gender, race, and class in the U.S.?
module 7
Discussion on family (refer to study guide)
module 8
Work (Refer to Module 8 instructions)
module 9
Refer to Module 9 instructions
What struck you most from this module's readings?
Essentialism versus constructivism
What's in a name?
"shifting the center", "reconstructing knowledge"
Exclusionary versus inclusive thinking
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