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Response Exercise Two

            Writing is an effective way of producing new knowledge.  Notably, writing can be used to draft new information to promote knowledge. This is a concept effectively relayed in the week 3 reading, Race and the education of desire: Foucault’s history of sexuality and the colonial order of things, by Stoler. In this text, new knowledge is relayed about the European sexual discourse and the history of sexuality (Stoler, 1995). For instance, the reading educated me of the fact that writing was an effective tool that passed a message that the history of sexuality involves a suggestive if not a studied form of race treatment. The fact that European sexuality was repressed and hidden during the 19^th century was later unveiled after the emergence of racism and written texts explaining the modern sexuality as pattern by the past issues of race and identity experienced during the historic times (Stoler, 1995). In the text, writing is also utilized as a mode for knowledge generation in that it clearly documents the sexuality intersection, specifically during the colonial times. Notably, it is evident that Foucault’s writing was effective in presenting knowledge about the intersections of sexuality as seen during the colonial times.

            Looking at week 4 reading, “A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory” by Sullivan, it is evident that writing can be utilized as a mode for new knowledge generation by uncovering new important historical concepts which could not have been otherwise known to the people. For instance, Sullivan has effectively presented a race classification system which was presented during the 18^th century (Sullivan, 2003). With Sullivan’s writing, a message is relayed why the Whites are provides with power in the community in comparison to the Blacks. Writing also serves as a desirable means of information generation in that it enables researchers to create an image about past occurrences to the audience in a simplified way that they can easily understand. For example, “A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory” has documented the insights of several theorists regarding the concept of race and how it is related with the skin color, character and intelligence (Sullivan, 2003). One of the most effective messages relayed through the text includes that of character and intelligence and the fact that they are related with race. With this information, it becomes simpler to derive that race plays a significant role in the distribution of resources as factors such as intelligence will be considered when it comes to categorization in the community (Sullivan, 2003). The fact that writing makes it easy to record the sentiment of prominent theorists on important matters such as race and sexuality makes it possible for people to learn about the changes experienced on the societal issues over the time.

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