Weekday class: Due Monday 3/24
Friday class: Due Friday 3/28
Read the essay, "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" by Audre Lorde
Answer the following questions:
1. What prompted Lorde to write this essay?
2. What are the "master's tools"? How do you know what she's talking about? Give examples.
3. What is Lorde's claim about race in this essay? How can this essay be tied to the "white privilege" piece?
4. Explain what the following quote means: "Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an
old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with
the master's concerns. " Can you give an example of this?
5. What does "the personal is political"? Where did this phrase originally come from?
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