AnnouncEments

• Today’s assignment is light so you have more time to prepare your midterm report, due Friday at 5pm.
• The midterm grade sheet template is updated to include the Oct 23 booking deadline.

AGENDA

• Device time
  • News item
  • Announcements 
  • Primary research check-in + tips updates.
    • Reminder on having a backup plan
    • Reminders about using AI for primary research prep
  • Midterm template
    • 1500 words (about 6 pages) due on October 23 at 5pm
    • For full credit, you must have booked your primary research interview and/or archival visit by this date. Don’t forget to copy me on all correspondence, since this is your proof of work.
    • I shared a Midterm Google Doc with each of you. Please prepare your midterm in this doc. I’ll download these docs on 10/23 at 5pm.
    • Midterm grade sheet template here.
• Device-free time
  • Timed exercise
  • Discussion with audio excerpt

ASSIGNMENT

You can use AI, but you must verify any information you find. I may ask you about it.

1. NEWS: Please share a relevant news item and be prepared to explain it.
2. READ and be prepared to discuss:
   • Beloved up until ““Stamp allowed that perch and catfish were jumping into the boat—didn’t even have to drop a line.” (The entirety of Beloved-Part05.mp3)
   • PBS: Technology Timeline (1752-1990)
3. REVIEW and be prepared to discuss:
   • Coaston: Intersectionality Explainer (Vox 2019)
   • Crenshaw: Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait (Washington Post, 2015)  
   • Any/all previous assignments
4. EMAILS (now overdue): See the Session 9 assignment for details.
5. FOR DISCUSSION FACILITATORS leading the next session: email me the following by 1:30pm ET before the next class, as part of your discussion grade.
   • your 2-3 minute audio excerpt
   • a simple discussion question on the Beloved and additional technology reading assignments
   • a more challenging discussion question on the same assignment

OPTIONAL READING ON INTERSECTIONALITY

• Bond: Global Intersectionality and Contemporary Human Rights (OUP, 2021). See Chapter 1 for a brief historical survey of intersectionality theory.

Primary Reading on Intersectionality

• Crenshaw, 1989: Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Policies. This article cites three cases involving technology companies:
  • DeGraffenreid v. General Motors
  • Moore v. Hughes Helicopter, Inc.
  • Payne v. Travenol
• Matsuda, 1993: Beside My Sister, Facing the Enemy: Legal Theory Out of Coalition. Focus on the concepts of multicultural coalition, anti-subordination, and the introduction of intersectionality.