Caucasia Part Two: from caucasia, with love

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Caucasia Part Two from caucasia, with love

• Lecture 13
• Caucasia
• Professor Ralina Joseph

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Part Two Characters

• Jesse
• Sheila
• The van
• The Marshes (Walter, Libby, Nicholas)
• Nick
• Jim
• Mona
• Samantha

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Heads Together

• List all of the ways that race is fluid in
  Caucasia.
• List all of the ways that race is fixed in
  Caucasia.
• How would you characterize the roles of gender
  and sexuality in the novel?
• What role/s do sexuality and gender play in the
  fixed and/or fluid nature of race?

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Mini-Assignment

• Write for five minutes connecting what youve
  read so far in Caucasia to the major themes of
  the class.

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Essay Pre-Writing

• Write for five minutes on your essay topic. What
  is your argument? How will you be supporting it?

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For Wednesday

• Please bring TWO copies of your essay to class on
  Wednesday. This draft should be as complete as
  possible (but unpolished is just fine). You will
  be peer-editing group members papers on
  Wednesday.
• This draft accounts for 5 points of your final
  paper. If you do not have two copies of your
  draft in class on Wednesday then you will lose
  five points from your paper grade.