WGS160Y1 Lecture 6: Lecture 6.doc

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28 Feb 2012

School

UTSG

Department

Women and Gender Studies

Course

WGS160Y1

Professor

Dina Georgis

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Larsen wrote passing during the harlem renaissance of the 1920s and 30s. It was a cultural movement of cultural expression: theatre, literature, music (jazz) Passing is a comment on the plessy vs ferguson decision that maintained racial segregation based on biological trace of race. Racial instability: race is imagined through biological difference from , we have physiological differences. Though race must be distinguished from culture, they often collapse. There is a conflation between things that are actually cultural and the physical attributes you are born with. Though you cannot alter your race, you can identify with and adopt a culture, which does not officially belong to your race. If you figure out how to be white then you pass. This is what clare does in the novel. This is one of the questions that larsen is asking. She"s consciously playing that white role (she is conscious of race) She has an experience of the cultural dimensions of race.

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23. Gender-based violence in the workplace can lead to which ofthe following harmful impacts on sex workersâ lives?

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