HW #5

Weekday class due: Tuesday 4/1
Friday class due: 4/4

Read the following essay:
The Combahee River Collective Statement

Consider how this essay, along with Audre Lorde's "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House", relate to one another.

• What points did the Combahee River Collective make in 1977? 

• Why do they say it is so difficult to have an open, frank discussion about race in the feminist community?

"War on Men" article

"War on Men" by Suzanne Venker, the article I read to you in class.

"Freedom Riders" Film

Weekday class: Finish by Monday, 3/31
Friday class: Finish by Friday 4/5

"Freedom Riders" on PBS

Extra credit opportunities

Extra Credit instructions

 

Brooklyn in Film: The Landlord

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 6:30PM

Central Library, Dweck Center

Beau Bridges plays Elgar Enders, a privileged WASP who buys a building in the transitional neighborhood of 1970 Park Slope, planning to evict all the occupants and construct a luxury home for himself. Enders’ ideas are changed, however, when he becomes acquainted with the tenants, who include Marge, a fortune-teller; Professor Duboise, a black segregationist; the Copee family; and an invalid couple who live in the basement. He decides to remain as the landlord and help fix the apartment building. Curated and hosted by Glenn Kenny. Dir. Hal Ashby. (1970; 112 min).

Brooklyn Museum: Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party"

Weekday class:

We will be attending this event for class on Thursday, 3/27. We will meet in U219.

Voter Rights Act 1965

The Daily Show
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Homework #4

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?