Writing Homework Help

The readings will be attached here;

https://thenewinquiry.com/skin-feeling/

http://www.kenjiyoshino.com/articles/pressure_to_cover.pdf

Read the descriptions carefully please.

DO NOT USE ANY OTHER SOURCES/DIFFERENT ARTICLES!!!

PLEASE TRY REFER TO THE TEXT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE., ANSWER THE QUESTION CLEARLY

If, as Yoshino says, “The demand to cover is anything but trivial. It is the symbolic heartland of inequality — what reassures one group of its superiority to another,” (7), it presumes that visibility is an answer to a problem. However, when Samatar says, “Academics of color experience an enervating visibility, but it’s not simply that we’re part of a very small minority. We are also a desired minority, at least for appearance’s sake. University life demands that academics of color commodify themselves as symbols of diversity—in fact, as diversity itself, since diversity, in this context, is located entirely in the realm of the symbolic,” (3), it challenges the definition of visibility and the ways visibility might lead towards equality.

How does the concept of covering and the experience of skin feeling impact the attempts to bring true diversity to public life?

The main question is underlined above. Please use the questions to consider under the readings. Please no outside sources!!!

And please refer to the text and make quotations!!!!

Readings:

Yoshino, Kenji. “Pressure to Cover” http://www.kenjiyoshino.com/articles/pressure_to_cover.pdf

Samatar, Sofia. “Skin Feeling” https://thenewinquiry.com/skin-feeling/

!!!Questions to Consider!!!

1. How would Samatar react to Yoshino’s concept of Covering? Would she agree to the idea that a more humanistic view of hiring in the academy would lead to true diversity?
2. How would Yoshino react to “Skin Feeling” and its place in the reform of anti-discrimination legislation?
3. Would Yoshino agree with Samatar’s “defense” of Dr. W? Her explanation of Charlie “Bird” Parker’s streaking?

Required formatting: double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-pt. font (Times New Roman), MLA format