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Tutorial: Color, Culture and Class, Color, Culture and Class, Tutorial (2010)
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Description
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Race thinking dominates ways in which people in the United States differentiate groups of people from each other. This tutorial focuses on associations between color and culture in order to examine how racial meanings are constructed and made comprehensible as well as how they are routed through representations of class. Using a combination of texts -- academic articles, films, newspapers and advertisements -- we will explore representations of "whiteness," "blackness," and other "race-d" identities in the public arena. Throughout the semester we will interrogate the language, ideas and assumptions that give meaning to the different ways we perceive the world around us and through which we understand our individual experiences.
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2010
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grinnell:11384
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W. E. Ley to Jimmy Ley - February 12, 1944
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Description
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Jimmy's father tells him about nephew David's rapid growth and then comments that he has not heard from Betty and Ed recently. He wonders to Jimmy about Ed's new job and about whether Betty and Ed will move. He tells Jimmy that the recent houseguests "Bags" and "Nuts" asked after him. Regarding work, he updates Jimmy on the goings on at the garage and comments that Lucille is a faithful worker at the Red Cross room. He closes by expressing his wish that "the tide could turn" in Italy. He encloses two news clippings.
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Date Created
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1944
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PID
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grinnell:26483