Assignment:
Attentiveness to the structure and detail of everyday life has been a constant thread throughout our discussions and the readings in the text, urging us to focus on the tangible and immediate rather than the abstract and transcendent. How do the selections in the Week 8 readings bring home the ways everyday actions might force us to address the ways we think about race and about the intersections of class and gender with race? How do the authors use the category of the everyday and intentional actions, and to what effect?