Simon/Crenshaw
Simon argued that the fire at imperial foods was not an
ACCIDENT
The Communist Manifesto was published in this year.
1848
Woolf argues that women need these two things to be able to write fiction.
MONEY + A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN
The city this book takes place in?
ATHENS
The text we are reading next week and the author
ANTIGONE, SOPHOCLES
Simon posits the existence of the “Culture of___”
Cheap
In addition to the abolition of bourgeois private property, Marx and Engels propose abolishing this:
FAMILY/NATION-STATES
Woolf spends a lot of time in this famous center of knowledge (stolen goods).
BRITISH MUSEUM
This is the Greek translation of “Apologia” into English:
DEFENSE
The day the first paper due. 100 bonus points if you what percent of your grade it counts for
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3RD, 11:59 PM, 10%
Professor Kimberle Crenshaw coined this term in 1989, meaning _______
INTERSECTIONALITY. A LENS IN WHICH TO DESCRIBE THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES FACED BY A PERSON WITH OVERLAPPING MARGINALIZED IDENTITIES
Marx opposed this idea, in which an individual or corporation owns the means of production - such as a factory - rather than the workers. He argued that it should be abolished and that the workers should collectively own the means of production.
PRIVATE PROPERTY
Who is Judith Shakespeare and why does Woolf spend so much time talking about her?
A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT ILLUSTRATING WOMEN’S INEQUALITY. MUST DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANCE.
After Socrates is sentenced to death he accepts his fate, why?
IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE COLLAPSE OF SOCIETY THE DECISION OF THE COURT MUST BE RESPECTED
Name every author we have read in order AND the name of their texts. You have 30 seconds
Bryant Simon's The Hamlet Fire, Kimberlé Crenshaw The Intersectionality Wars, Marx and Engels' The Communist Manifesto, Marx's Alienated Labor, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Plato's Apology, Plato's Crito
Why does Crenshaw state that the court rulings often result in a narrow view of discrimination faced by Black women?
“THE LAW SEEM[S] TO FORGET THAT BLACK WOMEN ARE BOTH BLACK AND FEMALE, AND THUS SUBJECT TO DISCRIMINATION BASED ON BOTH RACE, GENDER, AND OFTEN, A COMBINATION OF THE TWO.”
Alienation occurs because workers do not own this, which includes factories, machines, and tools
MEANS OF PRODUCTION
What unexpected source of income did Woolf attribute her financial security, allowing her the freedom to write?
AN INHERITANCE FROM HER AUNT
in Crito, Socrates compares disobeying the Laws of Athens to disobeying what type of authority figure?
ONE’S PARENTS
Hailey's favorite drink, 100 extra points for her favorite rapper
Diet Coke, Chief Keef (I will also take Playboi Carti)
Crenshaw faced significant pushback from right-wing politicians on the coining of the term “Intersectionality.” However, critics often misinterpreted the purpose of the term. What is one of the critiques Crenshaw faced?
MANY RIGHT-WING POLITICIANS BELIEVED THAT CRENSHAW WAS CREATING A “NEW CASTE SYSTEM’ PLACING NON-WHITE, NON-HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE ON TOP. HOWEVER, CRENSHAW WAS ATTEMPTING TO DEMOLISH RACIAL HIERARCHIES ALL TOGETHER.
The Communist Manifesto ends with this famous phrase, starting with “Workers of the world___!”
Unite
This is the institution that Virginia Woolf strives to critique through her writing
The patriarchy
In Plato’s Apology, What does Socrates describe as his mission in life?
TO EXPOSE THE IGNORANCE OF THOSE WHO THOUGHT OF THEMSELVES AS WISE AND TO TRY TO CONVINCE HIS FELLOW CITIZENS THAT EVERY MAN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS OWN MORAL ATTITUDES (THINK FOR YOURSELF).
Kendall's favorite baseball team, 100 extra points for knowing her hometown
Dodgers, Redondo Beach (LA doesn't count)