Essay Instructions: GUIDELINES FOR SECOND CRITICAL REACTION PAPER
As with your first paper, this paper should be no less than five and no more than seven pages in length (double-spaced, typed), with an additional page of bibliography.
Paralleling your first paper, the goal of this critical essay is to show that you have a textured understanding of the key issues with respect to the nation-state case studies of Brazil and the US that we have covered in the readings, films, presentations, and discussions of the second half of the course.
You are free to develop your own thesis, and to organize your paper however you would like, but you should specifically engage either the Goldstein book or a minimum of four articles from the Goode volume. Make sure that you provide a systematic review of the key arguments for each of the chapters of the Goldstein ethnography. Feel free to additionally bring into your analysis the films we have watched during the second half of the course (“City of God,” “Just Black,”). Also feel free to bring into your discussion any relevant core concepts and analyses from various lectures throughout the course.
Goldstein book options:
http://jamieleeawesome.wikispaces.com/Donna+Goldstein-+Laughter+Out+of+Place
1.) Provide a critical book review of Goldstein’s ethnography (be sure to address each chapter systematically if you choose this one, assessing additionally strengths and weaknesses of the ethnography as well as potential audiences).
2.) Based on the Goldstein ethnography and “City of God,” address the similarities and differences with respect to female versus male perspectives on the Rio shantytown experiences (along lines of class, race, and gender/ sexuality) that both of these ethnographic works engage.
3.) Based on the Goldstein ethnography, “City of God,”, and “Just Black,” compare and contrast the constructions of race, class, and gender/ sexuality in Brazil with those of the US.
City of God links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/synopsis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_God_(2002_film)
Just Black?: Multi-Racial Identity links: http://www.filmakers.com/index.php?a=filmDetail&filmID=398
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460479/plotsummary
GUIDELINES ON WRITING A CRITICAL ESSAY/ PAPER:
Make sure your paper is well-organized, and write as clearly and concisely as you can. Additionally, please observe the following guidelines:
1.) Develop either a thesis or an argument. State this in your opening paragraph in one or two sentences. Briefly outline (in two or three additional sentences) how you will develop the argument throughout the body of the essay??"i.e., in order to give the reader a sort of "road map." Be sure to restate your thesis in your conclusion, and be sure that the title of your paper reflects your thesis.
2.) Write a unified essay. That is, make sure that the thesis or argument serves as the central thread connecting the various parts of your essay. This entails having a strong introduction, a strong "body" (that you can divide up into subsections if you want), and a strong conclusion. Additionally, make sure you have transitions between paragraphs and between any subsections.
3.) You should use the body of the paper to develop your supporting arguments and analyses, and to present your supporting examples. Draw out the key points and issues in the readings with respect to your argument. When you do summarize material from the readings, make sure that your summary is brief and to the point--avoid getting lost in the details.
4.) Do feel free to use quotes, but only use them when the author you are quoting says something in such a profound or eloquent way that you want to capture their sentiment. Otherwise, paraphrase (though of course this still entails citing the author in question). When you do use quotes, make sure that you set them up appropriately, transitioning from your voice to the voice of the author you are quoting, and then re-transitioning back to your voice. Remember that your paper is your narrative. Finally, do single-space and indent any quotes longer than four lines.
5.) For this paper, aim to use the anthropological style of citation. This means referencing within the text of the paper--e.g., (Goldstein 2003: 21)--though you can, of course, footnote (or endnote) comments that you do not want to include in the main text. Also aim to follow anthropological style in writing your bibliography (see Goldstein), and make sure that it is comprehensive. Note that you always need to cite individual articles by author’s last name in edited volumes??"see the bibliography in either Goldstein for how to differently cite journal articles, edited volume articles, and books.
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