1. Turn in essays
2. Announcements
New Blog due Date: NOT TODAY or yesterday
Upcoming events: Green Week Thursday; Creative Writing Read-a-Thon; Literary LaGuardia; DREAM Act Play this Friday; Social Science Career Day.
questions and confusions
What is it like being a student in this college?
3. Twitter: Sign in to Twitter and give your thoughts about the novel "Untouchable." Tweet one: Overall impression(s). 2) Locate a passage, phrase, or word you found interesting or confusing. Tweet the page number and say what you found interesting or confusing.
4.Take this Survey.
5. In-class blog: Respond to the following in-class assignmment.
6. Group work: Racial Formation in the United States (continuing discussion from last week).
From Last Week: Review and Looking Ahead:
Class Discussion
How do we approach difficult texts and readings?
color-blind (1)
color-conscious (1)
racial formation (4)
ethnicity theory (4)
biologist perspectives (10)
race-relations cycle (10)
paradigms (11)
three central categories (12)
Group Discussion of Key Terms
1. ethnicity (15)
rejection (20)
differences (21-22)
2. class (24)
false consciousness (31)
ideology (31)
centrality of race (34)
3. nation + colonialism (37)
cultural nationalism (40)
unify groups (41)
race-based (47)
Assignment Two
7. Thinking through racial formation in Untouchable.
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