1.What does “Nice Girls Don’t Talk to Rastas” teach us about the western anthropologist and understanding the social/class differences within the studied community/society?
2. What is the relationship & difference between “human variation” and race, according to our readings in “Human variation”?
3. Lila Abu-Lughod goes further in the critique “against culture.” Why does she criticize the concept culture and what does she offer instead?
4. Why does Aimé Césaire state that “Europe is indefensible?” How does colonization work to “decivilize” the colonizer? Write a short response in relation to Jamelle Bouie’s “The Enlightenment’s Dark Side.”
5. Now it is commonsense that “race is a social construct.” What do we mean by that? What is the history of “race” as we know it today? How come race is still such a strong social category if it is “just an illusion?”