PLEASE ONLY USE READINGS LISTED
MUST USE Michelle Obama book along with 4 other provided text
MUST BE IN APA 7th
Please note its alot of reading but do not use outside sources
Also most readings have multiple pdfs please view all.
To complete this assignment, you will:
- Read the posted Chapters 1-3 Download Chapters 1-3from Becoming by Michelle Obama.
- Draft a 5-6 page essay that examines Michelle’s life story from a sociological perspective by answering the following: How was Michelle Obama shaped by gender socialization and racial socialization in her early years?
- Make connections between the examples in Michelle Obama’s childhood and the assigned readings in this unit. Choose at least 4 of the 6 readings listed below to analyze examples from the memoir. How does Michelle’s childhood illustrate or diverge from the concepts and findings in the readings?
- “Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools” by Karin A. Martin
- Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School by Barrie Thorne. 1, 3-6
- “Using Racial and Ethnic Concepts: The Critical Case of Very Young Children,” by Debra Van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin
- White Kids by Margaret Hagerman, Introduction, Ch. 4
- Mothering While Black by Dawn Dow, Introduction, Ch. 1, Conclusion
- Unequal Childhoods by Annette Lareau