Explore and analyze race and gender as interrelated (and socially constructed) social forces and identities.
Address the following core questions in your paper:
In what ways do *race* and *gender* shape and inform single stories (in your experience)?
What erroneous raced, gendered assumptions do “single stories” create about others and/or yourself?
What are the consequences therein? Focus on your own ideas and interactions with dominant cultural
logics (i.e., single stories). Your own internal world includes these larger logics so that your experience,
reflections, and analyses are crucial sites of knowledge.
• Keep in mind: (1) Race and gender simultaneously construct each other. (2) Identities of privilege (i.e.,
whiteness) need to be properly acknowledged and examined as well as penalized identities (i.e., women’s or
transgender experiences). (3) Race and gender are not the only systems arranging power in social relations.
It is fine (but not required) if you find that your argument needs to address social dimensions of sexuality,
class, religion, ableism, or other dimensions of power and identity.
ASSIGNMENT DESIGN ELEMENTS:
1. Be sure to review Chimamanda Adichie’s “The Danger of the Single Story” and include a definition of a
“single story” in your own words; do cite Adichie’s text properly.
2. Draw from your life experiences with and observations of “single stories,” and provide an analytic yet
reflective response to the query above. Engage your experiences with and apply theories and concepts from
the course (minimum of three texts in addition to Adichie’s Talk) to build and support your discussions
and/or arguments about the interplay of gender and race in “single stories.” Using first person is encouraged.
COMPOSITION DETAILS – All of the following are required for review and credit:
1. Thesis Statement: Underline and bold your thesis statement. See BB> “Syllabus and Related” > “Writing
Resources” for help with thesis statement and other writing things.
2. Engage 3 Course Texts (in addition to Adichie’s talk): Including a discussion of course texts means at
minimum identifying and engaging one or more principal ideas from each text in ways that effectively
advance your discussion/explanation/argument/etc. for the reader. Each chapter read from the same author
or book qualifies as a distinct text.
4. No Excerpts from Texts: Avoid including direct quotations;
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