Write a 1,250-1,500 word essay (5-6 pages, double-spaced) in which you analyze the logic, reasoning, and arguments behind the epistemologies of race and nation. To do so, you will focus your discussion and analysis on all of the four texts identified above. In your analysis, you should incorporate material from class lectures, readings, and discussions.
For each of the assigned texts, consider the following:
-How does the author portray/characterize people in terms of race and/or nation? Why?
-What kinds of arguments does the author make? Does he/she provide any evidence to support/substantiate his/her claims?
-What does the text reveal about the author’s understanding of race and/or nation?
-Identify and explain any conflicts or varying perspectives within the text.
-What does the text suggest about the relationship between race and nation at the time and place in which they were written? About power and inequality?
-What is the historical context within which the author writes? How does that context shape knowledges and their understandings of race and nation?
-Taken together, what do the readings reveal about knowledges and epistemologies of race and nation? How do the ideas presented within the texts contribute to a larger body of knowledge about race and nation? How might contemporary perspectives and knowledges today be shaped by these historical accounts?
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