Choose any seven of the following questions and answer each question in 275-300 words (minimum) FOR EACH question. There is no maximum word count. Be sure to identify which question you are answer.
1.Barbara Christian discusses “hieroglyphics” in relationship to Black theorization. Explain her argument.
2.Barbara Christian’s article is titled “A Race for Theory” – discuss how this title is a play on words and how it relates to her argument about what it means to create theory.
3.Choose any concept from Barbara Christian’s article and explain the author’s ideas behind this concept.
4.In the essay ‘Disloyal to Feminism’ – Emi Koyama focuses on a critique of success in a number of areas. Explain Koyama’s critique of success and how it relates to the broader topic of the article.
5.In Emi Koyama’s essay, there is a particular focus on what it means to be disloyal, explain the title of the essay “Disloyal to Feminism” and how it relates to race, gender, and sexuality in anti-violence work. Secondly, explain why “disloyal” is not a complete rejection of feminist practice.
6.In “The Color of Violence Introduction” give three examples of how state violence is always and already a form of gender and sexual violence.
7.In “Law Enforcement and Violence Against Women” by Andrea Ritchie, the author describes and analyzes a number of stories. Choose one of the stories, summarize the story, explain how this story is an example of one of the arguments the author makes in the essay.
8.Discuss the role of sexuality and race in the experiences and legal case in the film, “Out in the Night”
9.What is the role of colonialism and gender in Lianne Simpson’s discussion of gender and violence?
- Dian Million’s essay “Theory from Life” spends careful time to discuss “story” and its relationship to theory. Explain her ideas about the relationship between story and theory and why this is in particular, a form of Indigenous theory
- What is “cultural relativism” and what is Lila Abu-Lughod’s critique of this theory? How is her critique exemplary of her analysis of war and rescue?
- How are gender, body, and property discussed in the chapter “Reproduction in Bondage” by Dorothy Roberts?
- Who disappears in the essay “Palestinian Women’s Disappearing Act” by Amal Amireh and what is the author’s argument about why this disappearance occurs?
- Choose any concept or idea from one reading on the syllabus. Summarizes how the author explains the concept or idea and what the author’s argument is.
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