write 5-page autobiography of your body and situate the narrative within a social context, specifically a framework that deals with physical, political and ideological borders. In this paper, engage in an honest and critical discussion that explores your body as more than a strict biological “given” but a racially constructed and dynamic entity. Discuss the way race and racism influence your body in the past as well as the present. Questions you might entertain include, but must not limited to:
How did you understand your body as a raced body, Black person, etc when you were growing up?
Explain your first racialized experience and how it changed the way you understood race in your life.
How has your assessment of your body as a raced body changed over time and place?
At one point did you become aware of your race and racial features and how they may have been the same or different from the people around you.
What factors and forces shaped that assessment?
What sorts of measures, if any, have you taken to change your race or features related to race (skin color, hair, body features) in some way? What motivated your decisions?
What were the outcomes of your efforts?
How did other social constructs (gender, class, education, religion) and their connections to your race affect the way you and others viewed your body? Explain
What is your current relationship with your race?
Please right in a first person (personal narrative)
