READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Don't forget that your second round of blogging (on Baldwin, and/or Fanon, et al.) will be due by midnight on Monday, February 16.

We'll begin class on Tuesday by discussing Geeta Kothari's essay, "If You Are What You Eat . . . "

Please read James Baldwin's novel, Another Country.

Please also read the Introduction and Excerpt of Chapter 1 from Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks, linked here via Google Books.

Guidelines for 6-8 Page (1,500-2,000 Word) Identity Essay, Due February 24, 2009:

Using Kothari's essay on food as identity, and food as cultural literacy as a model/point of departure, please write a 6-8 page personal essay reflecting on your own identity/identities.

You are welcome to use food as the medium by which you think about and analyze/discuss your own sense of personal identity, but you are welcome to use other mediums to consider identity as well: religion, housing/place, apparel, you name it.

Remember that identity is not strictly limited to ethnicity, but can also be about class, orientation, ability, religion, education, vocation, place (urban vs. rural), etc.