Identify some key features of kinship in contemporary American life, and describe at least one factor that has transformed American families in the last 50 years.

LABEL EACH PART IN THE ESSAY (PART 1 PART 2 PART 3)
(1)Citing at least three course texts (including Smedley and Smedley 2005), explain what Smedley and Smedley mean when they argue that [r]ace as biology is fiction, racism as a social problem is real, and give at least one example of how life in the contemporary United States demonstrates this point.

Sources for this question:
– 1. (Smedley and Smedley 2005)
2. (Deborah Tannen; The power of talk)
3. (Ta-Nehisi Coates; The black family in the age of incarceration)

(2) Citing at least three course texts, explain what kinship is (and what is not), identify some key features of kinship in contemporary American life, and describe at least one factor that has transformed American families in the last 50 years.

sources:
1.(Sahlins marshall; What is Kinship-and what is not)
2. (The changing American Family)
3. (pascoe)

(3) Kimberl Crenshaw, who coined the term intersectionality once wrote,
Consider an analogy to traffic in an intersection, coming and going in all four directions. Discrimination, like traffic through an intersection, may flow in one direction, and it may flow in another. If an accident happens in an intersection, it can be caused by cars traveling from any number of directions and sometimes, from all of them.
Drawing on at least two course texts, describe the kinds of discrimination and/or oppression experienced by the subjects of Paris is Burning, and provide at least two examples of how these dimensions of discrimination and/or oppression intersect to produce unique issues for the film’s subjects.

sources :
1. The fight to be muslim in america.
2. Lewin

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