Topic: race alongside questions of medium, media, and mediation in American print, visual, and sound cultures.
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Use this space to write a short piece that might help you get your bearings on the Eliot and/or Rankine pieces. You might want to use your writing to:

Consider Eliot’s claims, reasons, underlying assumptions, key terms, and evidence, and chart them out (like your Short Assignment 1 on Winant).
Write a discussion question on what you find interesting or confusing in Eliot’s essay or Rankine’s poetry so far.
Write a discussion question, reflection, or analysis on how to apply or connect what you have learned from Eliot and/or Rankine to the McLuhan, Winant, or Beyonce pieces, class discussions, or another issue that is relevant.

Topic: race alongside questions of medium, media, and mediation in American print, visual, and sound cultures.

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Contexts: How does Winant contextualize the goals of his essay? To what issues, conversations, assumptions, or questions is the article responding?

Claim(s): What is/are Winant’s major point/s?

Reasons: What are the reason(s) why the points are being made? How does the article explain how these points differ from others’, and why they matter?

Key Analytic Terms: What are the terms that key to Winant’s argument? Define them in your own words.

Evidence:How does Winant backs up his arguments? What does he offer as “proof”?