GRSJ 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Kendrick Lamar, Racial Profiling, Biopower

• School: UBC
• Department: Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
• Course: GRSJ 101
• Professor: Lori Mac Intosh

Document Summary

Mimi thi nguyen: the hoodie as sign, screen, expectation, and force. Bettina l. love: good kids, mad cities - kendrick lamar and finding inner resistance in. How we define ourselves v. how others define us. Jon stratton: zombie trouble - zombie texts, bare life, and displaced people. Power over knowledge and truth to construct our understanding of life and ourselves. Essential elements of human life are infringed upon in order to rationalize regimes of power and of authority. State is not one to take something it cannot return. Agamben: homo sacer, sovereign power, and bare life. Laurel westbrook and kristen schilt: doing gender, determining gender - transgender people, Gender panics, and the maintenance of the sex/gender/sexuality system. The master"s tool will never dismantle the master"s house. Andrew lesk: ambivalence at the site of authority - desire and difference in funny boy. His perceptions of marriage come from sinhala films. Encompasses all the major themes of this chapter.