8. Gender (as a performance): Malleable because your behavior creates your genderThe article “Women’s Sweat” focuses on black women. It refers to the idea that we can’t just think of people as black or white or people as just men or women. All of these ideas intersect and interact with one another.The script for the black women is very different than the script for the white women. Black women are understood to be particularly suited to work in fields compared to white women and skilled labor (textiles etc).Gender scripts often justify inequalities. Just following the “nature” of who we are. Gender plays out differently in different cultures and places in the world.Black women are thought to be adept at a certain kind of labor (working in the fields). Behind that script is a relation of power. The scripts constrained them to a lower position in the labor hierarchy. They are not neutral they reflect power.Drag doesn’t aim toward a perfect impersonationAlways a gap between real and drag performanceDrag is usually exaggerated, binary of male and femaleDrag makes fun of the categories by over blowing the performance of femininityPassing is like drag, but if you’re good at passing no one in the audience can identify them as a male“passing” as a womanBlending inAre we ever in drag in our everyday lives?Over exaggerate our gender rolesIt is an overview of her bookWritten more for a wider audience, not an academic tone. Informal.She brings to light a national crisisThere is a problem with the disproportional rate of African American men incarcerated in AmericaThe War On DrugsBranding African American men as violent “drug lords”Around the 1980’sAs well as the branding of African American women as welfare queensIllegal drug consumption is fairly equal among racial communitiesIn fact, Some studies show that white men are more likely to sell drugs than black menThe neoplantationNew Orleans in 2005 had similarities to a slave plantationVictims of Katrina were treated like slaves, as people were evacuated from the city families were divided, children were separated from parents etcResidential segregation: the places below sea level are disproportionately black neighborhoodsLack of mobility: many of the poor residents in New Orleans were stuck without means to leave the city. Like slaves unable to leave the plantationRacialized work: divided work according to race. Old aristocratic town, lines of race and social class are very clear.The blues traditionAfrican American response to catastropheBlues comes out of a particular historical experience of African AmericansCornel West, What is the “bluesman”?Someone who begins with the catastrophicThe blues is a lyrical response to the monstrousSlaveryFreedom, rights, and liberty for everybodyNot revenge but justiceNot bitterness but compassionBlue notes, Mixing major and minor tonalitiesDifference between major and minor: Major is happy uplifting, minor is down liftingEach give a different feelingBlues is unique because you are taking major chords and playing a minor scaleProduces a dissonant soundLifting and lamentingHopeful bitternessYou can hear the blues sensibility in the notes itselfThe problem is that it is extremely difficult, or impossible, to get by on the minimum wage here in the U.S.If we had perfect mobility it would solve the mobility problem, but does not solve the inequality problemSomebody has to be working those jobsSolutions:raising minimum wage can make the cost of things go up in order to compensateWhy should we care about people that are not apart of our direct social circles?People can work full time and not make enough money to survive.Social justiceWhat kind of jobs did she work? What were her experiences? What were her main points?AMST-A 100 1st Edition Exam 1 Study Guide Lectures: 1 - 13Key Terms and Definitions1. Myth: not literally true but a powerful influence on the way people think and act2. Life chances: opportunities to improve ones’ life3. Mobility: The ability to rise up and move from one class to another, higher class4. Colonialism: (vs. annexation, occupation and neocolonialism) 5. Performativity: Through repetition of played out gender scripts, things come to seem natural. It is both what they repeat and what people repeat around them. What’s familiar is what is natural.6. Nation: a form of political organization in which a group of people who share the same history, traditions, or language, and who live in a particular area under one government (an example of a problematic definition of “nation.”) 7. Race: is a social construction based on perceived and culturally significant phenotypical differences8. Gender (as a performance): Malleable because your behavior creates your gender 9. Class: Weber- class is more complex and is determined as much by factors such as “status” (social prestige) and “party” (political affiliations) as it is by economic factors. Marx- believed class was fundamentally economic10. Drag: a performance of over exaggerated gender roles and makes fun of these “categories” by over blowing the performance of femininity.11. Intersectionality: the interaction of systems of discrimination and oppression that operate along the lines of race, class, gender and sexuality. 12. Empire: supreme and sovereign control in governing; imperial.13. Inequality: social injustice and disparity 14. Transnationalism: the fluidity with which ideas, objects, capital, and people move acrossborders and boundaries.Summary of Readings/Films“Our America” Jose Marti- He asks the question, what’s the relationship of the Indians to the American colony?- He says race is an issue in all American societies (Europeans and Native Americans, slaves)- He highlights themes that all American societies have- He gives us a different perspective of the US- Explains North America and its relationship to Latin America, he recognizes it as imperialist“Black Transnationalism and the Politics of National Identity” Michelle Stephens- The melting pot is both a myth (powerful influence on the was people think and act) and an ideology (ideas about what society should look like)- The melting pot is an ambiguous symbol, so it can be interpreted in different ways (but cannot just mean anything to anyone) - The melting pot theory, like multiculturalism (preserves certain symbols of culture but still requires other areas of the US to assimilate), can be seen as a way