ESSAY PORTION:
Short essay question MUST be completed. Each essay is worth 30 points. It will be graded on support and examples given to back up your claims, depth of thought/quality of insight, AND, since you have time to work on it at home, grammar. Doing two essays will give you a possible maximum of 60 points.
Doing Race: 1-43
“Knowing the Other:” Arabs, Islam, and the West 199-215
“The Jew as the Original “other” Difference, Antisemitism, and Race” 187-197
Race the Power of Illusion: The Difference Between us (film)
Reel Bad Arabs (film)
WATCH: REEL BAD ARABS— Race the Power of Illusion: The Difference Between us (film)
The Jew as the original “Other”: Difference, Anti-Semitism, and Race
In studying the Jewish “Other” we saw how Jews were classified as “Other” by Christians, Muslims, and other cultural groups. Despite the pain of this “othering” mostly due to their religious practices, many Jewish people would later come to classify themselves as not only as a Religious Group, but also as a distinct RACE of people. Acknowledging what we have learned this semester about “Doing Race” and the essay on “The Jew as the original “Other”: Difference, Anti-Semitism, and Race,” REFLECT on this idea. How does (or did) such a belief work FOR the Jewish people as an “other” in American society? Also, how does (or did) it work AGAINST them as an identified “other in American society?
