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Hello,
I joined this community because for the last six years I have been out of college with a fixed idea of going back and recently, I realized that what I wanted to study was not rhetoric and composition at all, but sociocultural anthropology.
Color me excited and scared by turns!
My B.A. is in English with a concentration in Writing and a double cognate in Vocal Performance and Theatre. However, for the last four years, I have been researching and studying, primarily, topics in critical race theory and social construction of race, queer theory, transgendered issues and pop culture.
I am interested in a couple of different things...
I want to study the ways in which different cultures and communities of color think about each other and the messages we receive via popular culture about each other (e.g. the most recent debacle regarding Hot 97 in NY and the suppression of honest communicating)...
But there is also GBLTQI/SGL youth of color and their stories.
And a host of other things I am interested in that I think will be served through this discipline... but I am still unsure about whether it really... could be the axis around which most of my intellectual inquiries and study revolves.
I mean, I didn't study anthropology at USC. And I approach this as a writer... as an interpreter of theory and data...
I guess I am worried and looking to find out other people's stories and opinions about this.
In two years time, I plan to apply to the sociocultural anthropology program at UW.
I joined this community because for the last six years I have been out of college with a fixed idea of going back and recently, I realized that what I wanted to study was not rhetoric and composition at all, but sociocultural anthropology.
Color me excited and scared by turns!
My B.A. is in English with a concentration in Writing and a double cognate in Vocal Performance and Theatre. However, for the last four years, I have been researching and studying, primarily, topics in critical race theory and social construction of race, queer theory, transgendered issues and pop culture.
I am interested in a couple of different things...
I want to study the ways in which different cultures and communities of color think about each other and the messages we receive via popular culture about each other (e.g. the most recent debacle regarding Hot 97 in NY and the suppression of honest communicating)...
But there is also GBLTQI/SGL youth of color and their stories.
And a host of other things I am interested in that I think will be served through this discipline... but I am still unsure about whether it really... could be the axis around which most of my intellectual inquiries and study revolves.
I mean, I didn't study anthropology at USC. And I approach this as a writer... as an interpreter of theory and data...
I guess I am worried and looking to find out other people's stories and opinions about this.
In two years time, I plan to apply to the sociocultural anthropology program at UW.
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Re: Introduction
Tue, February 8, 2005 - 8:14 PMyou are moving towards the right field dude. u washington i've heard is not so good though, while u wisconsin has a much better reputation all around... bell hooks has a degree from there.
not having a ba in anthro wouldn't preclude most depts from considering you, (provided your grades and the rest of your application are good) as they all retrain their first year students in the basics anyway. -
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Tue, February 8, 2005 - 9:30 PMWhat do you mean by "not so good"?
UW is the best option for me because, well, I live in Seattle, my partner loves his job, his family is here, and I would not suffer from putting down some roots.
When I graduated from undergrad, I was going to pursue a MFA Creative Nonfiction or Poetry. *hee* So, I am all... I feel like a fish swimming through the sand of some beautiful desert in the Middle East.
I need to speak, again, to my professors and explain to them that this, not rhetoric and composition, is where I am moving. I mean, I have no idea if there is a body of work in this field... ugh.
So, I feel all "she being brand/new" and ish.
Thank you, btw.
... I love bell hooks. If everything thing goes accordingly, I will see her in March as she will be here.
Have you read _All about Love_? I read it last year. *wow* -
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Tue, February 8, 2005 - 11:18 PMyeah, my MA thesis advisor Ray Fogelson often said something to the effect of, U of Washington's an ok place, I knew some good anthropologists there... about 10 or 20 years ago, now, not so much.
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Wed, February 9, 2005 - 2:16 AMwell, i don't know anybody connected with u washington personally, but like miriam said the place may be ok but does not have the grandest reputation... on the other hand, it looks like they have a lot of young faculty, so maybe they are regrouping?
cult anthro mainly involves doing a lot of what they call "thick description," which is not all that different from creative writing. it is all about a literary "reading" (& writing) of culture. check out geertz, "the interpertation of cultures," or "mythologies" by barthes for a sense of it.
i haven't gotten to that one by hooks... i've read a lot of random stuff by her though. she's a knockout.
best of luck.
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