Drawing on case studies and readings attached (you do not need to use all of them, you may use as many as you want to), provide evidence for how race and gender are socially constructed ideas rather than “natural” (biological) differences. How have ideas of race and gender come about?
Videos about race:
The myth of race, debunked in 3 minutes
What is Good Hair? Tyra (7 min)
Preconceived Notions about Race, Tyra (7 min)
The Problem w/ White Beauty Standards
Aamer Rahman – Reverse Racism
Videos about gender:
India’s Third Gender Movement (14 min)
The Third Gender: Muxes (10 min)
She is My Son: Afghanistan’s Bacha Posh, When Girls Become Boys (26 min)
