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Assignment:
We will be practicing using UNT’s online resources for this discussion. We will be looking for a quote from a peer reviewed journal that we can connect to an author/topic from our syllabus. I have provided a link above to take you to the online search engine for UNT’s collection of journals. I have also provided a screen shot of the recommended boxes to check to limit your search. Feel free to include any specific disciplines you might be interested or familiar with but make sure that the content type is set to only journals. I have provided an example of a quote from a law journal below which will provide not only another look at social construction as discussed by Simone de Beauvoir but also is taken from an article by one of the authors mentioned by Richard Delgado. Kimberlé Crenshaw is credited with coining the term intersectionality. She is particularly concerned with the failures of the system to recognize overlapping oppressions which find people being not only discriminated against based on race or gender but specifically because of the combination. Her articles are worth skimming if you are interested in the intersection of gender, race, and policy discussions and some of the rulings she cites from court cases in defense of her claims are shocking to read.
“But to say that a category such as race or gender is socially constructed is not to say that that category has no significance in our world. On the contrary, a large and continuing project for subordinated people-and indeed, one of the projects for which postmodern theories have been very helpful-is thinking about the way power has clustered around certain categories and is exercised against others. This project attempts to unveil the processes of subordination and the various ways those processes are experienced by people who are subordinated and people who are privileged. It is, then, a project that presumes that categories have meaning and consequences. This project’s most pressing problem, in many if not most cases, is not the existence of the categories, but rather the particular values attached to them, and the way those values foster and create social hierarchies” (Crenshaw 1991, 1296-1297).
Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review43, no. 6 (1991): 1241-1299.
Required: You must include the following
- You will provide a quote from an online journal with proper in-text citation (see example above).
- You will provide a bibliographic entry for your quote in proper format for the online journal (see example above).
- You will provide a brief explanation as to how your quote clarifies, adds to, or otherwise enhances the thinking of a particular philosopher as listed on our syllabus from Modules 7 or 8 or broadly on the topics of feminism and critical race theory in general.
- You will, as per usual, also comment on the original post of a classmate. Please keep in mind that vapid positivity and empty flattery does not push the conversation forward. We can and ought be both polite and critical.
