Women's Studies

Women's Studies

Question 1

After radio shock jock Don Imus was fired for his racist joke about the Rutgers women's basketball team, the country couldn't stop talking about it. In a statement to NBCs Today, Imus responded to criticism by saying, "I know that that phrase didn't originate in the white community. That phrase originated in the black community. And Imp not stupid. I may be a white man, but I know that these young women and young black women all through that society are demeaned and disparaged and disrespected by their own black men and that they are called that name. And I know that, and that doesn't give me, obviously, any right to say it, but it doesn't give them any right to say it."

At the outset, I briefly consider the context in which issues of enlightened citizenship, corporeal identity, and public visibility have been and continue to be defined, thereby establishing in a preliminary way the tie between modernity and its anatomization of both the individual and social body according to the Hip Hop Town Hall Oprah. Such a conversation is a necessary precursor to the investigations of comparative anatomy where debates about the origin and scale of human being produced a series of analogies between blackness and other kinds of seemingly visible bodily differences as it has been described in Gender stereotyping in the English Language by Laurel Richardson.

Question 2

Through Hip Hop Town Hall Oprah the analogic relationship among differences, in fact, comparative anatomy drew nearly the full range of social hierarchies in the nineteenth century into race's well-entrenched logic of essential meaning, defining gender, sexuality, nationality, and class differences as consistent with race's corporeal distinctions. Through analogies between the smaller brain capacities and the perversely developed sexuality of black and female bodies, comparative anatomy read the ...