In addition, the purchase of a detailed world map or atlas is recommended if one is unfamiliar with world geography. These are avaliable at any bookstore. It is also a descriptive work produced from such research. G302 investigates this discipline in the context of American society. Fiction connects American racism and sexism to a transnational world of power, interests, and the historical experience of singular diasporas.
Law connects racism and sexism to discrimination, as evidenced in specific acts.
In short, we read across the genres to ask what ethnography's promises and limits might be today in relation to racism, conceptually and as marketable knowledge. Writing requirements will be detailed further in class. This course examines a range of bodily practices and cultural codes that mark the body, and asks why body rituals have become so salient in recent times. We will focus on the creation and institutionalization of sexual difference through representations of the body, and will also examine people's attempts to challenge these representations. Comparison of scholarly arguments about the body and its representation highlights debates about the body as a site of social control and political struggle.