Week 5: Social Construction of Knowledge

This week's readings:

Day 8, T, 9/20: Race, Culture, & Power

• Paulette Caldwell - A Hair Piece: Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Gender
• Gabby Douglas, her Olympics over, tearfully responds to social media critics (http://tinyurl.com/z9njrwb) 
• On Gabby Douglas’s hair, black women, why we care and why we shouldn’t (http://tinyurl.com/go3ru43) 

Suggested Readings

• Darker Shades of Queer: Race and Sexuality, author Chong-Suk Han
• Post from former student (http://tinyurl.com/hsq7c5c) 

Day 9, R, 9/22: Social Construction of Public Knowledge

• bell hooks - Talking Back (http://tinyurl.com/z9bxcru)
• Wikipedia’s Hostility to Women - Atlantic Monthly (http://tinyurl.com/jym8j6x)
• Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap - Reluctantly (http://tinyurl.com/z9wn68b)
• Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List (http://tinyurl.com/z3ahr6q)