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Question 1

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Briefly explain what you think Sorrells meant by "resignifying race."

Your Answer:

Race has been resignified in the context of globalization in complex, shifting, and contradictory ways.

Question 2

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Identify and describe the three interlocking dimensions of whiteness.

Your Answer:

1.A location of structural advantage.

2.A standpoint.

3. A set of core values, practices, and norms.

Question 3

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The following passage is taken from the Declaration of Independence, published in 1776, that declared the original thirteen colonies of the United States as independent from Britain.  Read the passage below and use your semiotics skills to identify two signifiers and their signifieds.  Explain what message this passage is trying to send to the British monarchy:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Your Answer:

Two signifiers: rights and government.

Rights signifieds: life, liberty and the pursuit of Hapiness.

Government signifieds: principles, organizing its power.

It is trying to said that everyone is equal and has right to be happy and be control their own life despite any race or class and the government should be the one respect that