Social Constructions & Intersections
- Read: *Excerpt from Henry Giroux and Grace Pollack, “Children’s Culture and Disney’s Animated Films,” The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010). *Note: You can just skim pages 125-128…but I want you to think about what he means by ‘cultural pedagogy’
- Read: Michael Omi and Howard Winant, “Racial Formations,” in (ed.) Paula Rothenberg, Race, Class and Gender in the United States, 5th Ed (New York, Worth Publishers, 2001), pp. 11-18.
- Read: Judith Lorber, “The Social Construction of Gender,” in (ed.) Paula Rothenberg, Race, Class and Gender in the United States, 5th Ed (New York, Worth Publishers, 2001), pp. 47-55.
- *Note: I will be discussing both the Omi/Winant & Lorber readings in class (in addition to talking with you about the Giroux piece on Disney). Please circle terms, concepts and sections from these readings that you don’t understand and I’ll be sure to cover them.
For further reading & research:
- Read: “Introduction” to Catherine A. Luther, Carolyn Lepre and Naeemah Clark, Diversity in U. S. Mass Media (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), pp. 3-9.