In the weekly theme, we explored an apparent contradiction; categories like race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and so on are at once socially constructed and yet every bit as real as a physical force like gravity. Citing scholarly works from your class readings or from outside of the course readings, discuss how these social constructs become real in how people relate to one another. Give clean and concrete examples. Remember, you can’t see gravity, but you can examine and point out its effects, and so it is with these crucial categories by which difference is defined.
- Robust Knowledge requires both consensus and disagreement Discuss this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge.
- Relationship Between Violent Crime and Income Inequality
- The Importance of Islamic Art and What They Contributed to the Art World
- Discuss the causes of the Mexican-American War. Explain what were the consequences of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
- How might have the era of American President Andrew Jackson built the idea of “Westward Expansionism” and how did this ultimately involve Mexican territory? What was meant by the idea of “Manifest Destiny”?
- Diversity is Real
- Capitalism and slavery
- Topic: Microbiology food preservation methods
- People of color are responsible for gentrification
- Development of American Political Thought
