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Your fourth short writing assignment should be 2-3 pages (double-spaced) in length and is due on or before class begins (2:00 PM) on May 7. Your paper should be submitted via iLearn as a Word document or PDF file, not .pages, and simply not written or pasted into the text box. Because this is just a response paper, there is no need to provide a works cited page or cite the text in any formal way—you can simply reference the page number for any quotations in parentheses, like “blah blah blah” (p.64).

To complete the assignment, begin by picking one of these four assigned readings from Lemert’s Social Theory: The Multicultural, Global, an Classic Readings:

1. Frantz Fanon, “Decolonizing, National Culture, and the Negro Intellectual”

2. Pierre Bourdieu, “Structures, Habitus, Practices”

3. Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”

4. Jean Baudrillard, “Simulacra and Simulations: Disneyland”

In writing your paper, you will need to address the following tasks:

1. Summarize the theorist’s short biography from the textbook. How are their intellectual concerns shaped by the larger historical context of events in the time and place when they writing?

2. What are the main points, key concepts, or major questions raised in the text? Do your best to summarize the text in your own words.

3. At some point in your paper, quote one passage of two or more sentences from the text. Then try to analyze, explain, and translate the quote into modern-day plain English.