Curt Mills 8

Return to your first article earlier
in the term and respond to it. Where
do you and your community fit in all
we have learned so far? Propose a
project you feel is vital into the
positive imagination of this
community.

In the first post, I talked about nations like my classmates.  I closed saying, "What of nations now?  What does it still mean in modernity?  Writers like the late Christopher Hitchens still pick up the project today.  For instance, he advocated forcefully for the Kurdish people to be their own nation state.  Finally, and perhaps most importantly, what does it mean to be in a nation as an American?  Is America a nation at this point?  We are “a nation of immigrants” is the old adage, muddying the traditional interpretation of the word, and making it still unclear what it means to be in a nation as an American."

I would say I agree with what I wrote about all this mostly still, but would amend it now a bit saying I have a broader, less geopolitically centric interpretation of a nation.  A nation can be anything, or anyone really it seems.

My community fits fine into what we have learned thus far.  I feel this course has been more than open to my input and thought processes.  I have been happy with my ability to contribute and add to the dialogue of the class.  Anyone can be part of a community.  The community we have formed in Sex and Race is entirely arbitrary.  First, we all had to elect to attend or work at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.  Second, we had to be in interested in the coursework and / or need the GER 6.  Anyway you shake it, we come here from very diverse backgrounds and with different motives and goals for the class.  Yet, we are seemingly very cohesive and loving of one another.   

If I had to propose one project for the class, it would be actually a rather cliche exercise.  Every student should write down their expectations for the class, and see how surprised they were by them at the end of the semester upon looking at them again.