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1
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Discourses work to construct …

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truths about the world

2
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Discourses create ____ _____.

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subject positions

3
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Subject positions:

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  • sets of ideas about who someone is and how they should and shouldn’t behave
  • the truth about who you are is temporarily fixed within a discourse
4
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Subjectivities reflect the ways…

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people take up the various subject positions available to them

5
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When someone tries to occupy a subject position different from what the _____ constructs, they risk…

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  • discourse

- being incomprehensible and marginalized

6
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____ is the effect of discourse.

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truth

7
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Your very self is a _____ production:

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  • discursive

- you are who you are vs you are who you have been made into and are being made into

8
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The power of discourse is to make…

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certain things truer than others (eg. the idea that your selfhood exists outside discourse is a very true idea)

9
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What the discourse allows is taken to be…

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within the true

10
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What the discourse doesn’t allow is taken to be…

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outside the true

11
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No one _____ discursive power or is ____ for it.

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  • directs

- responsible

12
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Discursive power is located in the _____ not ____ _____.

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  • discourses

- various people

13
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_____ themselves are products/producers of discourse.

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people

14
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Performativity is based on ____ ____’s work.

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Judith Butler

15
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Judith Butler believed that there is no _____ before its _____.

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  • gender

- doing

16
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Identity politics normally assume a ….

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stable identity category (eg. black, upper class, gay, etc)

17
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Performativity:

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  • there is no essential identity inside us or before the performances that make up that identity
  • thus ‘our self’ is really just a shifting constellation of performances given meaning (temporarily) by various discourses in society
18
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____ are a truth effect.

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We

19
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Intersectionality theorists argue that people always hold ….

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overlapping, multiple, and shifting socially constructed identities

20
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Intersectionality is:

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social identities understood together within political, economic, and additional structures offer a much different perspective than when viewed in isolation

21
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Discrimination operates differently on different _____ with different _____.

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  • people

- consequences

22
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_____ can be hard to see.

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intersectionality

23
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The termination of Harris from the team was seen as evidence of _____.

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homophobia

24
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Harris was asked to …

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  • dress more feminine

- conform to heterosexual norms and white norms

25
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There is no such thing as a…

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non-racial heterosexuality

26
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Harris’ coach saw her as …

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too masculine but also (covertly) as too black

27
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Baggy clothes and cornrows are issues of both ____ and ____.

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  • gender

- race

28
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Redundant reading of “be more feminine and stop wearing cornrows”:

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both mean stop being a butch homosexual

29
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Conjunctive reading of “be more feminine and stop wearing cornrows”:

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the first means stop being a butch homosexual while the second means be less black

30
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What did media do with the Jennifer Harris case? How did this work against Harris?

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  • separated these, saw them as non-interacting
  • her argument was that she was discriminated against for her race/sexuality combination had no place in media and legal frameworks
31
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Black women have a number of subject positions available to them that differ from white women, such as:

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  • if you work hard at a job = bad mother who neglects her children
  • if you stay home to raise those children = welfare queen
  • if you enjoy sex = hoe
  • if you don’t need a man for sex = emasculating
32
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Black women have ____ healthy, positive subject positions to engage.

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few

33
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To compensate for implied lesbianism, a black female athlete risks…

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becoming a ‘hoe’ whereas a white female athlete does not

34
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Jennifer Harris case is the intersection of…

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  • race
  • gender
  • sex
  • sexual orientation
35
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White people are not as often depicted as _____. For a white person, being ____ is not equivalent to being an _____.

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  • animals
  • strong
  • animal
36
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For a black individual, being…..is risky.

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  • fast
  • strong
  • confident
  • powerful
37
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Being animalistic is also linked to being ____ _____:

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  • sexually aggressive
  • for black women: emasculating
  • for black men: sexual criminal (rapist)