The aim of this essay is for you to be sensitive to and turn a critical eye toward the places, times, and ways you encounter race, class, gender, and sexuality in your daily life—this can include people in everyday interactions, family/friends, as well as media (television, billboards, magazines, newspapers, movies, sitcoms). Without interfering with people’s everyday lives (ie, do not put them on the spot), take pictures of these encounters with people or other media and
include them in a written essay (the pictures do not count toward page requirements of the essay). Unless you receive permission from friends or family to take photographs in a private setting, any observations of or interactions with people will take place in public where photography is ethical. Your encounters do not need to include people but can be of print or visual media or merchandise. You’ll want to be thinking about this project a few weeks in advance so you can collect a range of photos that accurately depict your encounters with products, culture and news stories or media representations you encounter about them. In the essay, use the concepts, terms, and facts learned from the course in order to critically analyze 1) what your encounters with race, class, gender, and/or sexuality in your everyday life say about them; 2) what your encounters says about national rhetoric, media representations, and popular discourse and more; and 3) whatyour encounters with race, class, gender, and sexuality in your everyday life says about you. You will want to address the context or situations in which these encounters occur, speculate why thisis, and address what these encounters miss. Four photos minimum; underline the key concepts, terms, and facts from class that you use in your analysis. Write your paper in a coherent format that conceptually links all the photos together
