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Reflect on the role that art plays in promoting and advancing the public's understanding of diversity, intersectionality, otherness and empathy drawing from images from the Great Wall of Los Angeles and/or the portfolios of Rafael Cárdenas and Star Montana. Submission Portal ... » Learn More about Response Paper 6

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Nativism is the name given to an exclusionary discourse directed against immigrants. It promotes the interests of the native born as defined by a select group of native-born persons that self-identify as concerned citizens or as patriots. Nativism, populism, and racism have long, intersecting ... » Learn More about Response Paper 5

  "Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power." (Kimberlé Crenshaw, "Why Intersectionality Can't Wait," in "Kimberlé Crenshaw" 111).   "Intersectionality has given many advocates a way to frame their circumstances ... » Learn More about The Body Papers

Instructions: Review the passage below from "Othering: Cultural Diversity and Symbolic Boundaries." Afterwards, watch this video and describe the act of othering that one of the speakers relates, which fits (to a tee!) the framework of othering given in the quoted passage and in the article more ... » Learn More about Response Paper 3