What does it mean that race is socially constructed? Can you come up with some examples for the social construction of race?
Why is it important to focus on the uses of social category in person reference and everyday interaction? What can they reveal?
How is the ethnomethodological approach Whitehead and Zhang adopted in their conversation analysis different from and complementary to the macro-level analysis of racial formation?
To what extent can we extend what we learned about racial category and racial common sense to the study of gender, sexuality, and class?