Introduction to the Course - Aug 27 (M)
Explanation of the syllabus, approaches, expectations, etc.
Images to get us thinking:
Thinking Intersectionally - Aug 29 (W)
Readings for today (NOTE - All readings, aside from books, are online via ANGEL):
KEY TERMS: race, ethnicity, gender, sex, feminism, intersectionality
For further reading & research:
Explanation of the syllabus, approaches, expectations, etc.
Images to get us thinking:
- Guerilla Girls billboard
- Barbie vs. Real Bodies
- Truthout comic about women in the media
- The media's Gabby Douglas problem (from Ebony)
- Blackface minstrelsy in US history
- Creating the savage 'other' via early 20th Century advertising
Thinking Intersectionally - Aug 29 (W)
Readings for today (NOTE - All readings, aside from books, are online via ANGEL):
- bell hooks, “Race and Gender” in Feminism is for Everybody.
- Race & Ethnicity definitions (excerpts from Keywords in American Cultural Studies)
- Notes on gender and sex (from Zack)
For further reading & research:
- bell hooks, Cultural Criticism and Transformation (film)
- In Depth with Bell Hooks (video)
