Please write 6 short essays (200-400 words each, roughly). There are 6 essay prompts below. You need to form logical and accurate arguments using the assigned materials (attached below as PDF) to present your views, and these may be dramatically different from the professors views. Short of submitting hateful content, your well-formed and backed up opinion is what matters.

1- Are white people the only ones who can be racist? How would Ijeoma Iluo and Ibram X. Kendi respond to this? Be sure to note how their definitions of racist/racism differ and how this impacts who can be racist. 

2-Explain why and how race is a social construct. Be sure to outline the evolution of human skin pigmentation, and false assumptions of the biological race concept, but how the idea nevertheless impacts lives.

3-Outline what privilege is and is not within the context of social theory. Describe your intersectionality and areas in which you may be privileged or oppressed. Comment on how we as a society can lessen oppression related to privilege.

4-What is the homosexual paradox? Explain how we can account for homosexuality within the framework of natural selection. What new theory has been proposed which suggests this a moot point regardless?

5-Most young people in America learn about sex, at least in part, through online pornography. Ethical issues about pornography aside, what are the pros and cons about acquiring sexual education from pornography.  What is your opinion on the usefulness pornography as an education tool?

6-Development of biological sex and gender identity are said to be semi-independent. Explain how normal development of biological sex and gender identity could result in someone being transgendered. (Please just remember that although we can account for being transgender through biology, this is not all encompassing and does not mean that trans or non-binary gendered people need to account for or prove their sex or gender) 

IMPORTANT:
Please no outside sources.
Only use the attached PDF as a source.