Emerging Intersections: Race & Gender In Theory & Practice

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Reading Responses 1 Title Emerging intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice. Editors Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth Enid Zambrana Summary The authors bring a fresh approach of evaluating inequality in the American society, which revolves around intersectionality. Ideally, this is a critical way of evaluating racial, ethnicity, physical ability, sexuality, gender and age disparities by way of contesting the existing ways of looking at the structures of inequality. Terms; intersectionality is the main concept in the piece and it relates to the interconnected nature of social categories such as gender, class, race and ethnicity in reference to their overlapping nature and elements of discrimination systems. The authors are inquisitive, which explains why they feel the need to reevaluate the existing approaches on social elements and introduce a better and more complex approach. The audience in this case are the scholar community and the government officials who will better understand the elements of social injustices and realities as they are defined currently and how they need to reevaluated. 2 Title How to Conduct a 'Close Analysis' of a Media 'Text' Author Elizabeth Thomas Summary The article is about evaluation of media content and context with a critical approach to the process. According to the author, it is only through critical review that is referred to as close analysis that one is able to derive the deeper meaning intended by the producer. Close analysis, is a concept that involves evaluating the content of any media c...