class lecture slides

1. intersections of race, class,
gender & sexuality
01.12.2011
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2. quiz 1
1. The United States, like many other societies globally, puts an emphasis on what
when distributing its wealth and power among citizens?
2. Scientists and scholars now agree that sex is___________________ and gender
is________________________.
3. Race is________________________ and ethnicity
is________________________.
4. It is not difference itself that leads to subordination but the________________ of
difference.
5.
In the United States class has been socially constructed so that those who
perform manual labor are seen as _____________________ to those who
perform mental labor.
6. What is the notion of “passing” in relation to race in the United States?
7. The term racial formation refers to ______________________________
8. Racial etiquette refers to what?
9. Racialization is__________________________________________
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3. social constructions
• how do we become who we are?
• how are our roles assigned and managed?
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4. becoming / marking...
• practices/policies/institutions
• it’s a boy/girl
• birth certificate
• religious
• we are “interpellated”
• drawn into a system
• we submit to being who we are defined
as--it seems “natural”
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5. marked/marking...
• marked through ISAs
• defined/learn
• has to be “policed”
• continually managed--through actions/
rituals/markers
• we consent
• hegemony
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6. seeing/valuing
• who counts and how in society
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=WWERzwbobOk
• critique
• reinforcing/challenging (both/and?)
• read article
• what is his argument?
• how are some lives given more value in the
media?
• who or what lives are ignored?
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