- Anthropology of American Culture
According to Pem Buck in the book
Worked to the Bone, what are the circumstances in which the racial worldview first emerged in colonial Virginia? What major roles did race play in the subsequent development of Kentuckyâs history? Be sure to support your argument with details from each major time period of Kentuckyâs history, and be sure to show how race intersects with class and with labor relations at each stage
Essay should be 5-7 pages typed/double-spaced in standard font
Support your arguments with evidence from the book
Use citations that include page #s from the text
Required Textbooks:
Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century, by Catherine Lutz 2001: Beacon Press
Worked to the Bone: Race, Class, Power, and Privilege in Kentucky,
by Pem Buck 2002: Monthly Review Press
The Heroâs Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State,by Patricia Fernández-Kelly 2015: Princeton University Press
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States,by Seth Holmes 2013: University of California Press
Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande, by Angela Garcia 2010: University of California Press